Date: 1697
"If all Cogitation be extinct, all our Ideas are extinct, so far as they are Cogitations, and seated in the Soul: So we must have them new imprest; we are, as it were, new born and begin the World again"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1699
"The Spirit of God, or Wind of God, stands sometimes for a high and strong Wind; but more frequently it signifies a secret Impression made by God on the Mind of a Prophet."
preview | full record— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)
Date: 1700
"In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first impression."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)