Date: 1752
"Their Task discharg'd, and anxious how to lose / The least Impressions, recent on the Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: August, 1752
"The softenâd heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"It was now day, and fear was so strongly impressed on his mind, that he could sleep no more."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752
"His Mind was formed of those firm Materials, of which Nature formerly hammered out the Stoic, and upon which the Sorrows of no Man living could make an Impression. "
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: February 4, 1752
"My parents, though otherwise not great philosophers, knew the force of early education, and took care that the blank of my understanding should be filled with impressions of the value of money."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1753
"A beautiful horse, and fine armour, were objects which must naturally have made an impression on the mind of one so young as Ascanius"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1753
Aeneas's grief and distress were an "indication of his great tenderness, sensibility, and conjugal affection; and as such, must needs make a very deep impression on Dido's Heart"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1754
"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754
"In the first place, we must offer him the tribute of our gold, as to our true King; that is, we must daily present him with our souls, stampt with his own image, and burnished with divine love."
preview | full record— Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)
Date: 1754
"Our souls are stampt with God's own image, to this very end, that we should give them in tribute to him, by perfect love: 'render then to God the things that are God's'; by daily offering your whole souls up to him, by fervent acts of love; and you shall have given him your gold."
preview | full record— Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)