Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"From a stranger hand / Ah, what can infancy expect, when she / Whose essence was inwove with thine, whose life, / Whose soul thou didst participate, neglects / Herself in thee, and breaks the strongest seal / Which nature stamp'd in vain upon her heart"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"Well-skill'd / To form the growing soul, and on its young / And opening bud to fix the impression deep / Of every generous thought"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1787
"The soft parental rapture, fond embrace, / Kind gratulation, smile of filial love, / All form a deep impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Still wilt thou hang upon my joyless soul / That clasps thy dear impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1788
There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their kind, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
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Date: 1796
"My sons, if rich, might wield / The fan emblaz'd with Psyche and her boy / O'er some enchantress, whose contagious sighs / Would blast the best impression of their souls."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)