Date: 1736
"He illustrated this Truth by many Arguments, as well as by a great Number of Examples from the History of past Times, and his own Observation of the present; and that what he said to her might be the more deeply imprinted on her Mind, he obliged her every day to repeat to him the Subject of thei...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"She was pleased with the Person and Address of her Lover; her Heart confessed the Impression he had made on it; the tender Impulse thrill'd in every Part; she languish'd; she almost died away between his Arms."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736, 1743
"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1739
"Let all my Pow'rs thy Entrance feel, / And deeper stamp Thyself the Seal."
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Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
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Date: 1739
"Stamp thy whole Image on our Heart, / And all our Souls be Thine!"
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Date: 1742
"Give me Thy meek and lowly Mind, / And stamp Thine Image on my Heart."
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Date: 1742
"Be mindful of Thy gracious Word, / And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal."
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Date: 1742
"Transform my Nature into Thine, / Let all my Powers Thine Impress feel, / Let all my Soul become Divine, / And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal."
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Date: Tuesday, August 7, 1750
"[T]hey seem always to be fully employed, or to be completely at ease without employment, to feel few intellectual miseries or pleasures, and to have no exuberance of understanding to lay out upon curiosity or caprice, but to have their minds exactly adapted to their bodies, with few other ideas ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)