Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"The action of the pen will doubtless imprint an idea on the mind as well as on the paper: but I much question whether the benefits of this laborious method are adequate to the waste of time; and I must agree with Dr. Johnson, (Idler, No. 74.) 'that what is twice read, is commonly better remember...
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"Their [young persons'] minds are like a sheet of white paper, which takes any impression that it is proposed to make upon it."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798?, 1868
"'Grave [the commandments] with Thy Spirit's seal / On the tables of my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1798?, 1868
"On my heart the promise seal'd, / Wrote forgiveness on my heart!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1804, 1816
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1805
Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1806
"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)