Date: 1735-6
"The steel of Brutus burst the grosser bonds / By Cæsar cast o'er Rome; but still remain'd / The soft enchanting fetters of the mind, / And other Cæsars rose."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1738
"Happy, he who can unbind / The Chains that clog the fetter'd Mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739
"Long my imprison'd spirit lay, / Fast bound in sin and nature's night: / Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; / I woke; the dungeon flamed with light; / My chains fell off, my heart was free, / I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind! / From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free, / One only Appetite remained in Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"In vain we forge coercive Chains, to bind / The strongest, noblest Passion of the Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1742
"By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince / Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance / His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear, / And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains / Inferior Minds confine."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)