Date: 1667
"Those kind Impressions which Fate can't controul, / Are Heaven's mintage on a worthy Soul."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Nor was thy Head so worthy as thy Heart; / Where the Divine Impression shin'd so clear"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Yet by Impressions born with us we find/ How good, great, just thou art, how unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
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
"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: 1697
"But when Ulysses, with fallacious arts, / Had made impression in the people's hearts,"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1697
"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"This made the first impression in his mind / Above, but just above, the brutal kind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)