Date: 1715
"When all alone she was surpriz'd to find / Such strong Impressions on her feeble Mind."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1715-1720
"'Tis by a bare Repetition of his Name three times, which just leaves some Impression of him on the Mind of the Reader"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"[H]e would place in Opposition on one side the Son's Action which began the War, and on the other the Impressions of Concern or Repentance which it must by this time have made in the Father's Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
One should "grieve not excessively, let not sorrow make too great an Impression upon thy Heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1718
"Back with the usual Air he tost his Head, / The soft Impressions from his Mem'ry fled."
preview | full record— Purney, Thomas (1695-1730?)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1723
"Can'st say what diff'rent Turns the Spirits take, / When they of diff'rent Kinds Impressions make; / What vital Springs those Spirits in their Flight / Strike to cause Torment, what to give Delight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone, / Nor urg'd and press'd, its [Counsel's] feeble Force is gone, / And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind, / Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Prince Alfred's unresisting Mind / Receiv'd th' Impressions, by the Guide design'd"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)