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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."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"Prince Alfred's unresisting Mind / Receiv'd th' Impressions, by the Guide design'd"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"But gen'rous Alfred's Mercy, so he'll find, / Has left Impressions grateful on my Mind"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"Alfred awakens from the Vision, which leaves deep Impression on his Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"For still we find Plebeian Minds are sway'd / By strong Impressions on the Senses made"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"When Alfred thus had view'd with ravish'd Eyes / These bright Etherial Seats, these happy Skies, / Which on his Soul divine Impressions made, / And high Idea's to his Thought convey'd, / They by Degrees descended thro' the Air / To the sad Realms of Horrour and Despair; / The Walks of Death, and...

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1723

"While shiv'ring Chillness seizes every Vein, / Slackens their Sinews and disturbs their Brain, / Which deep Impressions left of various Kind, / That pain the Body or afflict the Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: September 10, 1726

"To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occ...

— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)

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Date: 1730

"But I find no argument made a stronger impression on the minds of these eminent Pagan converts, for strengthening their faith in the history of our Saviour, than the predictions relating to him in those old prophetick writings, which were deposited among the hands of the greatest enemies to Chri...

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

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Date: 1730

"This would imprint in our minds such a constant and uninterrupted awe and veneration as that which I am here recommending, and which is in reality a kind of incessant prayer, and reasonable humiliation of the soul before him who made it."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.