Date: 1810
"Environ'd as she is by every ill, / To her heart's first impression faithful still,"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"Therefore, actual pictures of beloved friends would not be so eagerly coveted, but that we render this darling, internal image indistinct, by recalling it too frequently; as that strength of line, which gives sharpness and spirit to a copper-plate, becomes injured after a certain number of impre...
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
An internal image is like a copper plate: "By repeated use, the plate, if not retouched, will produce only a dim and shadowy mass, in which the features and countenance cannot be very distinctly discerned."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"Yes, it is beneath the constant glow of ardent imagination, that the impression, given by memory, has faded. Then it is that a good, nay even an indifferent picture, or a paper-profile of a dear lost friend, strengthens our recollection, in the same manner that retouching a copper-plate restores...
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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"And when such Souls with pure impressions glow, / Love's labour's alway sweet, and seldom slow."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"His Mother, like the smooth reflecting stream, / Show'd every shadowy cloud; or glowing gleam-- ... Letting her tranquil bosom humbly lie, / To catch impressions from the purer sky!
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1816
"'Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart / 'Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1817
"Doctrines, by the Nurses taught, / Are fix'd for ever in the thought: / The fair Impression then pursue, / Of what is just, and what is true"
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Date: 1819
"'In dreams the chosen of my heart I view'd, / 'And thus th' impression day by day renew'd"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
"'Yes, all are dreams; but some as we awake / 'Fly off at once, and no impression make; / 'Others are felt, and ere they quit the brain / 'Make such impression that they come again"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)