Date: 1737
One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1737
"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"I thank you heartily for the new idea of life you there gave me; it will remain long with me, for it is very strongly impressed upon my imagination."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"A President of the council, or a star and garter will make no more impression upon my mind, at such a time, than the hearing of a bagpipe, or the sight of a poppet-show."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1739
"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739, 1741
"In These, whatever Sense first strikes their Thought, / (Or wrong or right) th' Impression deep is wrought"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1739
"Let all my Pow'rs thy Entrance feel, / And deeper stamp Thyself the Seal."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles