Date: 1775
"Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1778
"Why, my sweet one, you are all power, all a goddess; and you hold my heart enslaved in the chains of immortal love."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1779
"Banish'd--robb'd of my country, and my name; / Yet they have left a mind defies their vengeance-- / Which, though these limbs were lock'd in bolts of steel, / And darkness wrapt these precious founts of light, / Would rise superior to their bounded power, / And scorn alike their fetters, and the...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Generous Britain scorns to bind, / In servile chains, the freeborn mind."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: December 8, 1785, 1786
"And I from my purpose will never depart, / To bind faster those bonds in which Love holds your heart."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: February 17, 1786
"The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1789
"Here lies her bracelet of flowers, exquisitely perfumed by the root of sĂura which had been spread on her bosom: it has fallen from her delicate wrist, and is become a new chain for my heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1792
"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)