Date: 1684
"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1686
"But the false Image she will ne're erace, / Though far unworthy still to hold its place: / So hard it is, even Wiser grown, to take / Th' Impression out, which Fancy once did make."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1687
"Their thoughts or words can leave no mark behind; / Thy self dost make th' impression on thy mind."
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1691
"Dancing, Singing, Swearing, Impudence, / Can make Impressions upon easie sense"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"He teaches sacred Myst'ries yet behind, / And stamps the Christian Image on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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)