Date: 1695
"He teaches sacred Myst'ries yet behind, / And stamps the Christian Image on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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: 1703
"His Suff'rings on my Mind a deep Impression leave."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"My Soul, with softning Airs, prepar'd by Fate, / Took the Impression of that charming Face,"
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1705
"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
"Such dire Impressions in his Heart remain / Of MARLBRÔ'S Sword, and HOCKSTET'S fatal Plain."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1709
"Souls only can, sedate, receive / Th'Impression such a vast Delight does give"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1711
"Know, hardy Atheists, who insulting say / Some populous Realms to Gods no Homage pay, / And therefore Nature's universal Law / Imprints not on the Mind Religious Awe; / That those, who no superior Being own, / Are more from Beasts by Shape, than Reason known."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712, 1796
"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)