Date: 1776
"One of her domestics, a Christian woman, had frequently talked with her on religion, and though she never renounced her idols, had made some impressions on her mind"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"this manly indignation of the good Bishop against the impiety of religious persecution, made no impression on the mind of that bigotted Princess!"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1782
"How all impressions of the mind are chang'd! / The heart distended and the head derang'd."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1787
"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)