Date: 1781
"Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1790
"Impressed with this idea, the painter has represented a scene, wherein an honest, old man is accused before a magistrate of crimes of which he never was guilty, and a villain, behind the pillar, is enjoying the accusation."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"The mind is there disposed to hear religious truths; and, when uttered with solemnity, becoming their Author, and the sacredness of the place, they make such an impression on the mind, as is likely to continue with us."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1799
Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1810
"Love never made impression on her mind."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
"'In dreams the chosen of my heart I view'd, / 'And thus th' impression day by day renew'd"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
"'Yes, all are dreams; but some as we awake / 'Fly off at once, and no impression make; / 'Others are felt, and ere they quit the brain / 'Make such impression that they come again"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"These easy minds, where all impressions made / At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)