Date: 1777, 1793
"Of one, who, warm with human passions, soft / To tenderest impressions, frequent rush'd / Precipitate into the tangling maze"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1810
"The soul's impression they no longer share; / His soul is hovering round his distant fair."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1781
The "passive mind" may be (merely) impressed by substances and modes
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1781, 1810
"Triumphant love, with still superior art, / Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"Thus have we proved it never happens, / That ornament and outward trappings, / Can make on the heart the least impression, / Much less secure a fix'd possession."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1784
"She awakens with new vivacity to the impressions of pleasure, which her mind was accustomed to receive from scenic objects"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1785
One may "make certain impressions upon the mind of a certain person, whom a certain set of men have been doing their utmost to betray into his grandfather's errors."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1787
"The soft parental rapture, fond embrace, / Kind gratulation, smile of filial love, / All form a deep impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Still wilt thou hang upon my joyless soul / That clasps thy dear impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)