Date: 1800
"Yet e'en o'er thee, in thy despotic hours, / When thou hast chain'd the mind's excursive powers, / Though to thy gloomy keep by pain betray'd, / That mind can triumph by celestial aid."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Thy taste ador'd, with Virtue's temperate flame, / Truth, as the fountain both of art and fame; / Yet no ill-founded rule, no servile fear, / Chain'd thy free mind in Fancy's fav'rite sphere."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Your power I dare / In despite of these chains, / Unconquered still my soul remains."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1801
"My soul her bondage ill endures; / I pant for liberty like yours."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1802
"Paint courts, whose sorceries, too seducing bind, / In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind; / Courts, where unblushing Flatt'ry finds the way, / And casts a cloud o'er Truth's eternal ray."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1803
"The polish'd links that form the social chain, / For ages still to ages may remain / Nor snapt by rage, nor undermin'd by art, / If well the rivets join in every part; / But if those links that would the peasant bind, / Gall his chaf'd body, and corrode his mind, / The poor man's iron, and the r...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Urizen lay in darkness & solitude, in chains of the mind lock'd up."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1804
"Reason, blest Goddess! who disdains / Religion's Curbs, and mental Chains."
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: April 18, 1805
"Universal benevolence: the chain of reason in which we all, willingly, bind ourselves. Nature gave us the links, and civiliz'd humanity has polish'd them."
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1806
"The savage cheek / Smiles at the potent spoiler; braves his frown; / And while the partial gloom is most opake, / Still vaunts the mind unfetter'd!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)