Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1759
"Your Memory, and Understanding too / Will still acquire new Strength, by reading slow. / The Traveller, who o'er the Country flies, / Few rural Beauties, with Discernment, spies; / Objects, that pass so swift, confound the Mind, / And no distinct Impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Precepts in Verse, to measure still confin'd, / Can make more deep Impression, in the Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Ah! never at immodest Plays appear; / A wanton Farce, and a lascivious Play, / The Seeds of Vice insensibly convey; / There Virgin Innocence is first betray'd / By bad Impressions, on the Fancy made."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1762-3
"Fancy steps in, and stamps that real, / Which, ipso facto, is ideal."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
The senses should be distrusted "till Reason sets her seal, / And, by long trains of consequences / Ensured, gives sanction to the senses."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762
"And stamp Thine image on my breast, / And fill my emptied heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1763-4
"When Morpheus soon his guardian post resign'd, / And memory, faithful, stamp'd upon my mind / The sage instructions of the meek-eyed fair."
preview | full record— Mr. P--y (fl. 1763)
Date: w. 1764
"Take the bloody seal I give thee, / Deep impressed upon thy soul."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)