Date: 1745
"O keep the dear impression on your breast, / Nor idly loose it for a wretched jest.
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1747
"And it must be a thorough Acquaintance with her too, that will ever make an Impression on my Heart."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1755
"He bade me tell thee, / That in his Heart indelibly are stamp'd / His Father's Wrongs, and Thine."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1756
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Time, that wears out the trace of deepest anguish, / As the sea smooths the prints made in the sand, / Has past o'er thee in vain."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1759
"Such is the charm / Of heart-felt virtue; such is nature's force / That speaks abroad, and in rude northern hearts / Can stamp the image of an awful God."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1761
"But Heaven that gave a blessing to our bed, / Stampt the great Law of Nature on my heart, / And bound me to it by the sacred ties / Of fatherly affection."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1770
"Only give me time, / A little time, till old impressions die; / That I may yield a more devoted heart"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
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)