Date: 1693
"Would she but cast such quickning Beams on me, / I should her living Image be; / Look when she pleas'd, her Picture she would find / Deeply imprinted in my Mind."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1704
"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1739
"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1756
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1782
"How all impressions of the mind are chang'd! / The heart distended and the head derang'd."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)