Date: 1700
"This made the first impression in his mind / Above, but just above, the brutal kind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700, 1717
"And, as the soften'd Wax new Seals receives, / This Face assumes, and that Impression leaves; / Now call'd by one, now by another Name; / The Form is only chang'd, the Wax is still the same."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Large is their Soul, and capable to take / The first Impression's Gain or Pleasure make"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1715-1720
"In this Case the principal Image is more strongly impress'd on the Mind by a Multiplication of Similes, which are the natural Product of an Imagination labouring to express something very vast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"'Tis by a bare Repetition of his Name three times, which just leaves some Impression of him on the Mind of the Reader"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"[H]e would place in Opposition on one side the Son's Action which began the War, and on the other the Impressions of Concern or Repentance which it must by this time have made in the Father's Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
One should "grieve not excessively, let not sorrow make too great an Impression upon thy Heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"As pliant Wax each new Impression takes, / Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes, / Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide, / Tho' various Figures their Reception hide."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)