Date: 1736
"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736, 1743
"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1737
"As pliant Wax each new Impression takes, / Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes, / Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide, / Tho' various Figures their Reception hide."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1737
"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."
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Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)