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."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1704

"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)

Date: 1705

"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1705

"Such dire Impressions in his Heart remain / Of MARLBRÔ'S Sword, and HOCKSTET'S fatal Plain."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1709

"Souls only can, sedate, receive / Th'Impression such a vast Delight does give"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1711

"Know, hardy Atheists, who insulting say / Some populous Realms to Gods no Homage pay, / And therefore Nature's universal Law / Imprints not on the Mind Religious Awe; / That those, who no superior Being own, / Are more from Beasts by Shape, than Reason known."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1712

"Thus Fancy does the pliant Foetus wind, / Thus makes Impressions on the feeble Mind."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712, 1796

"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"But what he from the Lord had to him said, / On David's heart a deep impression made"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712

"Hence stampt on Nature we Perfection find, / Fair as th'Idea in th'Eternal Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)