Date: 1682
"This made Impression on some easie Minds, / Whom or good Nature, or false Pity blinds."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1683
"You say you love, but I had rather See't, / Shew loves impression in a wounded heart"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"He teaches sacred Myst'ries yet behind, / And stamps the Christian Image on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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: 1702
"But if a Love of the sublimest Kind / Can make Impressions on a gen'rous Mind:"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"Or how the Mem'ry does th' Impression take / Of Things, and to the Mind restores 'em back."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1705
"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1711
"Know, hardy Atheists, who insulting say / Some populous Realms to Gods no Homage pay, / And therefore Nature's universal Law / Imprints not on the Mind Religious Awe; / That those, who no superior Being own, / Are more from Beasts by Shape, than Reason known."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)