Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"Thoughts of God and a Saviour would come into my Mind, and the pious Impressions of my Infancy would return upon me; but I did my best to banish them, as they served but to torment me."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"I said, you have been dreaming; and the Impression still lies heavy and melancholy on your Memory"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1768
"Maria, tho' not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms--affliction had touch'd her looks with something that was scarce earthly--still she was feminine--and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman, that could the traces be ever wor...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1772
"A Line, or two, / If writ by you, / Will more Impression make / Upon her Heart, / Than all that I can do."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"Consult the Impression in your Breast, / And own, what all Mankind attest."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1782
"How all impressions of the mind are chang'd! / The heart distended and the head derang'd."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Nor complain of hard fate; but imprint on your mind, / That true pleasures should be like rich odours confin'd."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1790
"This principle ought even to be more strongly impressed upon the minds of those who compose the collective sovereignty than upon those of single princes."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)