For heav'n in love, dissolves the ties That chain the spirit here; And distant far for ever flies The blessing held most dear; To bid the suff'ring soul aspire A higher bliss to prove; To wake the pure, refin'd desire, The hope that rests above!

One man swore to chain two mountains together, and the great chain hung there, it was said, for ages as a monument of that mystical folly.

It is always found necessary by the regular slave-traders, in travelling with their slaves to the far South, to handcuff and chain their wretched victims, who have been bought up as the interest of the trader, and the luxury or necessities of the planter may chance to require, without regard to the ties sundered or the affections made desolate, by these infernal bargains.

With Nature war'd at such a rate, As left no mortal hue or stain Of base, corrupting flesh, to chain The Soul to Earth; but, free as light, E'en let her soar till out of sight.

Then just as we were about to move toward some accomplishment, a new phenomenon chained our attention to the shore.

She swounds: Aspatia help, for Heavens sake water; Such as may chain life for ever to this frame.

A wretch in Barbados had chained a Negro girl to the floor, and flogged her till she was nearly expiring.

They ask, that the whole people of the United Statesthose who hate, as well as those who love slavery, shall, by their representatives, assume the guilty and awful responsibility of perpetuating the enslavement of their innocent fellow men:of chaining the bodies and crushing the wills, and blotting out the minds of such, as have neither transgressed, nor even been accused of having transgressed, a single human law.

Revenge had bid them bind The iron chain on hands and feet; They could not chain his mind!

It was dusk when he returned to where he had put up his tent and chained the dogs.

"Look at these Venetians," said the daring conspirator one day to his apparent proselytes, "they affect to chain the lion; but the lion sometimes devours his master, especially when that master uses him ill."

Of these that chain our willing feet, There yonder where the path is leading, One is a lady calmly reading, One is a lady singing sweet, And one whose rapt though idle air Gives us to understand this truth A woman blessed with charms and youth, Does quite enough in being fair. ESCARPIN.

or I'll chain thee here In my dark vaults, and throw thee for thy food The city's garbage, which has stagnant stood, With impure waters for thy daily drink, And lodge thee in my prison till you sink From life impaled in yonder dismal room Of torture; to thy fate so thou hast come?

He was as secure for that day as though chained hand and foot.

The creaking litter and the long brown poles, The sinewy bearers with their cat-like stride, Dripping with sweat, that merry dark-eyed girl, Whose sudden beauty shook us from our dreams, And chained our eyes.

At the same moment, a note from the lovely Fanny Haywood was delivered to mefrom the divine girl who, in the midst of all my scientific abstraction, could "chain my worldly feelings for a moment.

It is very well for you, who have a fine place, and every thing easy, to talk thus, and think of chaining honest folks to a rock.

Naked, abject, let him fare As the lowest of the herd: There, while chains his body gird, Let him grovel and so die: For Daria, too, hard by Is another public place, Shameful home of worse disgrace, Where imprisoned let her lie: If, relying on the powers Of her beauty, her vain pride Dreamed of being my son's bride, Never shall she see that hour.

how those women worried him every morning with their badinage, and how glad he was to chain up the pump-handle and turn the key!

The young man placed his silk hat jauntily on his head, and passed through the outer office, whistling a low tune; out at the street door and down the walk; out into the gay world of dissipation, down into the treacherous depths of crime; one more of the many who have chained bright intellects to the chariot wheels of vice, and have been dragged through dust and mire to final and to irretrievable disaster.

't is the stillest hour of night, The Moon sheds down her palest light, And sleep has chained the lake and hill, The wood, the plain, the babbling rill; And where yon ivied lattice shows

For when the tyrant says to a man, I will chain your leg, he who values his leg says, Do not; have pity.

But though reason may chain Love and forbid his going wrong, all the logic in the world can not make him go where he will not.

But there's one thing, Nan Callender, I never did; I never chained up my lover to see if he'd stay chained.

" "It is that 'guard' of which you speak," remarked Spalding, "over the emotions, the sentiments of the heart, stifling their expression, and chaining down under a placid exterior their manifestations, that constitutes one of the broad distinctions between youth and manhood.