Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
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Date: 1752, 1791
"Inglorious bondage to the mind, / Heaven-born, sublime, and unconfin'd!"
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