Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760
"O happy stroke, that bursts the bonds of clay, / Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day, / And wings the soul with boundless flight to soar, / Where dangers threat, and fears alarm no more."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1760, 1850
Friendship is "The indissoluble tie that binds, / In equal chains, two sister minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1765
"Warm in the raptures of divine desire, / Burst the soft chain that curbs th'aspiring mind."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1774
"Oh! what is liberty regain'd, / When endless chains the mind controul?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1789
"Far nobler prize my heart constrains, / Yielding to soft controul; / Far other beauty binds in chains / The magnet of my soul."
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)