Date: 1760
"Attend all ye Fair, and I'll tell ye the Art / To bind every Fancy with ease in your Chains, / To hold in soft Fetters the conjugal Heart, / And banish from Hymen his Doubts and his Pains."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: December 6, 1765
"Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1766
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1767
"Beauty, ye fair, may forge the lover's chain; / But the mind's charms your empire must maintain."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1771
"But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: March 5, 1772
"True worth alone can form the charm that binds, / And rivet beauty's chains upon the mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1774
"The nymph, who in my bosom reigns, / With such full force my heart enchains, / That nothing ever can impair / The empire she possesses there."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1775
"Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1778
"Why, my sweet one, you are all power, all a goddess; and you hold my heart enslaved in the chains of immortal love."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)