Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
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: 1783
"Thus have we proved it never happens, / That ornament and outward trappings, / Can make on the heart the least impression, / Much less secure a fix'd possession."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1785
One may "make certain impressions upon the mind of a certain person, whom a certain set of men have been doing their utmost to betray into his grandfather's errors."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
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: 1789?
"If conscious Genius stamp their chosen breast, / And on the forehead show her seal impressed."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
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)
Date: 1796
"Yet on the youthful mind th' impression cast / Of ancient glory shall for ever last."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)