Date: 1736
"He illustrated this Truth by many Arguments, as well as by a great Number of Examples from the History of past Times, and his own Observation of the present; and that what he said to her might be the more deeply imprinted on her Mind, he obliged her every day to repeat to him the Subject of thei...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"She was pleased with the Person and Address of her Lover; her Heart confessed the Impression he had made on it; the tender Impulse thrill'd in every Part; she languish'd; she almost died away between his Arms."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"To thee; whatever kind impression's rais'd / In any heart for me, let it be thine!"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"My bosom all thy image shall retain, / The full impression there shall still remain."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1744, 1753
"But David, altho' the Picture of what Valentine and Cynthia must feel, on hearing such News, was deeply imprinted in his Imagination, and made a strong Effort to subdue his Mind; yet did he preserve Steadiness enough to conquer his own Passions, to comfort his Camilla, and again to restore his l...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)