Date: 1725
"Fair tho' she be, if she my Love disdains, / My Heart shall break the Bondage of her Chains."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1727
"Inhaling spirit; from the unfetter'd mind, / By thee sublimed, down to the daily race, / The mixing myriads of thy setting beam."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1731
"I've try'd all Arts my Passion to controul, / And still the giddy Tumult of my Soul; / But all in vain, no Charm has Strength to bind, / In lasting Chains, my wild disorder'd Mind."
preview | full record— Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)
Date: 1731
"Or here on Earth in diff'rent Bodies plac'd, / Still Acts new Scenes, forgetful of the past: / Till from her dull material Chain set free, / (The mortal Curtain drawn) she smiles to see, / The various Prospects of Immensity."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"Here Arlington, thy mighty Mind disdains / Inferior Earth, and breaks its servile Chains, / Aloft on Contemplations Wings you rise, / Scorn all below and mingle with the Skies."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1732
"Bind up bold Thought, in Slumber's silky Chain, / Since all we act, and all we know, is vain."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735-6
"Snatch'd by these wonders to that world where thought / Unfetter'd ranges, Fancy's magic hand / Led me anew o'er all the solemn scene, / Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn dress'd."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"The Persian fetters, that inthrall'd the mind, / Were turn'd to formal and apparent chains."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Britons! be firm!--nor let corruption sly / Twine round your heart indissoluble chains!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)