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...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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."
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Date: 1723, 1740
"The strong Impression / May break my Heart, but shall not bend my Mind."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Our Tears and Grief will soften their hard Hearts, / Fit to receive Impression from our Words."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Not the most tempting Charms of Wit, or Worth, / Most graceful Forms, or dazling Shew of Greatness, / Can make Impression on a Mind like her's"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: May 6, 1736
"These first Characters therefore ought to be deeply and beautifully struck, and the Learning they express should be of great Price. And this, if timely Care be taken, may be done with ease because the Mind is then soft and tender: and because Truth and Right are by the nature of Things, as pleas...
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Date: 1748
"Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;"
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Date: Tuesday, August 7, 1750
"[T]hey seem always to be fully employed, or to be completely at ease without employment, to feel few intellectual miseries or pleasures, and to have no exuberance of understanding to lay out upon curiosity or caprice, but to have their minds exactly adapted to their bodies, with few other ideas ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 1750
"But the images which memory presents are of a stubborn and untractable nature, the objects of remembrance have already existed, and left their signature behind them impressed upon the mind, so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change."
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Date: Tuesday, August 28, 1750
"Yet it too often happens that sorrow, thus lawfully entering, gains such a firm possession of the mind, that it is not afterwards to be ejected; the mournful ideas, first violently impressed and afterwards willingly received, so much engross the attention, as to predominate in every thought, to ...
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