Date: 1733-5
"[Love's] Pleasures have so many Pains, / And leave such Stings behind, / That I'm resolv'd to quit the Chains, / And free my captive Mind."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1753
"By steel may bodies be confin'd, / But love, my Orra, chains the mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1769
"And still my soul they [cares] hold in pain, / Their cruel empire to maintain."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1769
"Nor fill my stormy breast with ire."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1769
Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)