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."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1704
"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1705
"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
"Such dire Impressions in his Heart remain / Of MARLBRÔ'S Sword, and HOCKSTET'S fatal Plain."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1709
"Souls only can, sedate, receive / Th'Impression such a vast Delight does give"
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Thus Fancy does the pliant Foetus wind, / Thus makes Impressions on the feeble Mind."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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"
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1712
"Hence stampt on Nature we Perfection find, / Fair as th'Idea in th'Eternal Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)