Date: 1742
"Inebriate at fair Fortune's fountain-head, / And reeling through the wilderness of joy; / Where Sense runs savage, broke from Reason's chain, / And sings false peace, till smother'd by the pall."
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Date: 1742
"O how self-fetter'd was my grovelling soul!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Bound, every heart! and every bosom, burn!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"We wear the chains of Pleasure and of Pride: / These share the man; and these distract him too; / Draw different ways, and clash in their commands."
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Date: 1743
"He began there to be uneasy; for it shock'd him to find he was commanded to believe against his own judgment in points of Religion, Philosophy, &c. for his genius leading him freely to dispute all propositions, and call all points to account, he was impatient under those fetters of the free-born...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1744
"By toys entangled, or in guilt bemired, / [Ambition] turns a curse; it is our chain and scourge / In this dark dungeon, where confined we lie, / Close-grated by the sordid bars of sense; / All prospect of eternity shut out; / And, but for execution, ne'er set free."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What slave, unbless'd, who from to-morrow's dawn / Expects an empire? He forgets his chain, / And, throned in thought, his absent sceptre waves."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Yet not by all / Those lying forms which fancy in the brain / Engenders, are the kindling passions driven, / To guilty deeds; nor reason bound in chains, / That vice alone may lord it: oft adorn'd / With solemn pageants, folly mounts the throne, / And plays her idiot-anticks, like a queen. / A t...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Has thy constant heart refus'd / The silken fetters of delicious ease?"
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Date: 1745
"Though various are the tempers of mankind, / Pleasure's gay family hold all in chains."
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