Date: 1787
"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1801
"Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1802
"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1810
"Love never made impression on her mind."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1816
"'Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart / 'Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1817
"Doctrines, by the Nurses taught, / Are fix'd for ever in the thought: / The fair Impression then pursue, / Of what is just, and what is true"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)