Date: 1723
"While shiv'ring Chillness seizes every Vein, / Slackens their Sinews and disturbs their Brain, / Which deep Impressions left of various Kind, / That pain the Body or afflict the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1724
"To gain the unbeliever to my wishes, / I stirr'd his temper with such cautious art, / That, ere his judgment cou'd exert its phlegm, / His blood took ferment from a warmth of passion: / Then, while his fi'ry spirit flam'd with rage, / In its full heat, I stamp'd it with revenge."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Such contraries almighty wisdom finds, / And stamps on human minds."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1729, 1737
"This friendly counsel, to the Nymph convey'd, / No small Impression on her Fancy made:"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1732
"Each softening heart dissolves within its breast, / And love, as on this wax, is there imprest"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1733
"One beauteous Form has struck upon the Mind, / A sweet Impression, casual, or design'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"The deep Impression in my Soul was made, / When first I listen'd in the Jess'min Shade."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1735
"Come, gentle Sleep, my Eye-lids close, / These dull Impressions help me lose:"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Turn'd on its self its num'rous wants are seen, / And all the mighty void that lies within / Yet cannot wisdom stamp our joys complete; / 'Tis conscious virtue crowns the blest retreat."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Our lives like his in one smooth current flow, / Nor swell'd with tempest, nor too calmly slow, / Whilst he like some great sage of Rome or Greece, / Shall calm each rising doubt and speak us peace, / Correct each thought, each wayward wish controul, / And stamp with every virtue all the soul."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)