Date: 1666
"'Twill much oblige the Nation, for they'l finde / Your Play stampt with the Figure of your Minde;"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"Youth and white paper take any impression."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1679
"You'l find it worse and worse; and what's behind / Will strange Impressions make upon your Mind."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"Ah! I may preach untill my heart doth ake, / And it on thee will no Impression make."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1680
"Here your dear Memory shall be inshrin'd, / And deep impression bear upon our mind."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)
Date: 1680
"But how shall I begin this great Confession? / Which in my Soul doth make this deep Impression:"
preview | full record— Dean, John (fl. 1680-1684)
Date: 1680
"Those worthy deeds which he hath wrought / Within each breast, have left behind / Impressions, time can never blot."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1682
"This made Impression on some easie Minds, / Whom or good Nature, or false Pity blinds."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"The Body is but the Clog and Prisoner of the Mind; tossed up and down, and persecuted with Punishments, Violences, and Diseases; but the Mind it self is Sacred, and Eternal, and exempt from the Danger of all Actual Impression."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1683
Surprising touches and "a just method well-designed, / May leave a strong impression in the mind"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]