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Date: 1739, 1741

"In These, whatever Sense first strikes their Thought, / (Or wrong or right) th' Impression deep is wrought"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739

"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1739

"Stamp thy whole Image on our Heart, / And all our Souls be Thine!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1741

"But soon his tender Mind th' Impression felt"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"Her curious Thoughts the Ring's Impression bear, / And new Ideas interrupt her Rest."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"What strong Impressions does Affection give? / By Fancy, Men have often ceas'd to live."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"The younger two were of a milder Kind, / And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: September 27, 1746

"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."

— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)

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Date: 1761

"Music, I said, is a vain sound, that only flatters the ear, and makes little or no impression upon the mind."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

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Date: 1761

"More than once I saw the tears come into his eyes, while his heart seemed moft tenderly affected: above all, I observed the powerful impressions which the triumphs of virtue made on his mind; and I please myself in having raised up for Claud Anet a new protector, no less zealous than your father."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.