Date: 1753
"By steel may bodies be confin'd, / But love, my Orra, chains the mind."
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Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)