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)
Date: 1697
"But when Ulysses, with fallacious arts, / Had made impression in the people's hearts,"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1697
"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
The "Great Father's Character" may be found "Visibly stampt upon the Hero's mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
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, 1703, 1709
"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
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)