Date: 1776
"When Dr. Johnson speaks, we listen with respect and admiration, and feel our minds impressed with such an attentive kind of veneration, as I imagine was paid to the oracles of old."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"No, Stanley! neither Miss Harrison, nor any other woman I have seen in this kingdom, has made any impression on my heart; tho' I acknowledge I have beheld much beauty here, and that the lady I have named has charms sufficient, both of mind and person, to inspire the tenderest passion in a vacant...
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Date: 1776
"But I have other visions still more dreadful--spectres, indeed, that have long stampt indelible impressions on my heart and mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1782
"How all impressions of the mind are chang'd! / The heart distended and the head derang'd."
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Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Nor complain of hard fate; but imprint on your mind, / That true pleasures should be like rich odours confin'd."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1790
"This principle ought even to be more strongly impressed upon the minds of those who compose the collective sovereignty than upon those of single princes."
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