Date: 1687
"Their thoughts or words can leave no mark behind; / Thy self dost make th' impression on thy mind."
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1691
"Dancing, Singing, Swearing, Impudence, / Can make Impressions upon easie sense"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"Would she but cast such quickning Beams on me, / I should her living Image be; / Look when she pleas'd, her Picture she would find / Deeply imprinted in my Mind."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"He teaches sacred Myst'ries yet behind, / And stamps the Christian Image on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"But when Ulysses, with fallacious arts, / Had made impression in the people's hearts,"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)