Date: 1683
Surprising touches and "a just method well-designed, / May leave a strong impression in the mind"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"You say you love, but I had rather See't, / Shew loves impression in a wounded heart"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1683
"This thought such deep impressions makes"
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1684
"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1686
"But the false Image she will ne're erace, / Though far unworthy still to hold its place: / So hard it is, even Wiser grown, to take / Th' Impression out, which Fancy once did make."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"'Tis so many times in the capacities of Youth: they who can receive any impression like the Virgin-wax, will as easily suffer a defacement unless it be hardned and matur'd by Time: whereas others who are hard to be wrought upon like Steel, retain the Images which are Engraven on them with much m...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1687
"Their thoughts or words can leave no mark behind; / Thy self dost make th' impression on thy mind."
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1688
"There are a thousand things to be said of the Advantages this generous Passion brings to those, whose Hearts are capable of receiving its soft Impressions."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"But there is this farther Argument in it against their being innate: That these Characters, if they were native and original Impressions, should appear fairest and clearest in those Persons, in whom yet we find no Footsteps of them."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)