Date: 1804
"Reason, blest Goddess! who disdains / Religion's Curbs, and mental Chains."
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1807-8
"Much it behoves us to compute the strength / Of him, whose ruin we would work, of him, / Who vaunts himself the legate of Jehovah, / And by that title keeps our souls in thrall / And bondage worse than what our limbs endur'd / Under the yoke of Pharaoh."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)