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Date: 1692, 1724

"How difficult a Task will it be, to make an Impression on that unpractis'd Heart?"

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1692, 1724

"We us'd to see but little Company, according to the Custom of Spain; but my Father having receiv'd into his House a young Gentleman of a distinguish'd Family in Toledo, whose Name is Don Ramire of Castro, a secret Sympathy dispos'd his Heart and mine, to receive Impressions for each other."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1692, 1724

"Assure him from me, that my Heart never receiv'd an Impression before."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1692, 1724

"The Condition I am in, Madam, continu'd she, has not made any dishonourable Impression on my Heart."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1692, 1724

"Give me Leave to tell you, cry'd the young Prince, that when a Heart is touch'd with a powerful Passion, it's incapable of receiving any other Impression."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1692, 1724

"Before I had seen her, nothing cou'd be equal to my Ambition; but now her Charms have made so deep an Impression in my Heart, that all other Passions have submitted to my transcendent Love."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

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Date: 1726

"[T]he Person of the Man, and the Manner in which he delivered his Message, made such an Impression on her Mind, that she was in an instant changed"

— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)

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Date: 1732

"Amira no sooner saw the Duke's lntent, but she shun'd his Presence, at least as much as possible, without being observ'd, and express'd in every Action so resolute and inborn an Aversion, the Duke judg'd it impossible to be real; never once reflecting his fair Charge might be pre-ingag'd, and th...

— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)

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Date: 1733

"One beauteous Form has struck upon the Mind, / A sweet Impression, casual, or design'd."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1733

"The deep Impression in my Soul was made, / When first I listen'd in the Jess'min Shade."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.