Date: w. 1592-3 or 1595?, 1623
"O, Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine, / And in this vow do chain my soul to thine."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"How! Is your Soul once more enter'd into that Bondage?"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1678
"But Fancy, I think, in Poetry, is like Faith in Religion; it makes far discoveries, and soars above reason, but never clashes, or runs against it. Fancy leaps, and frisks, and away she's gone; whilst reason rattles the chains, and follows after."
preview | full record— Rymer, Thomas (1641-1713)
Date: 1703
"Force, and the Wills of our Imperious Rulers, / May bind two Bodies in one wretched Chain; / But Minds will still look back to their own Choice. / So the poor Captive in a Foreign Realm, / Stands on the Shoar, and sends his Wishes back / To the dear Native Land from whence he came."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"In Honour's Name remember what you are, / Break from the Bondage of this feeble Passion, / And urge your way to Glory."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"I feel my Soul impatient of its Bondage, / Disdaining this unworthy, idle Passion, / And strugling to be free."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Well then, I own my Heart has broke your Chains. / Patient I bore the painful Bondage long, / At length my generous Love disdains your Tyranny."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1753
"He combats Passion, rooted in the Soul, / Whose Powers at once delight ye and controul; / Whose Magic Bondage each lost Slave enjoys, / Nor wishes Freedom, tho' the Spell destroys."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1779
"Banish'd--robb'd of my country, and my name; / Yet they have left a mind defies their vengeance-- / Which, though these limbs were lock'd in bolts of steel, / And darkness wrapt these precious founts of light, / Would rise superior to their bounded power, / And scorn alike their fetters, and the...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1792
"Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects."
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)