Date: 1682
"This made Impression on some easie Minds, / Whom or good Nature, or false Pity blinds."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1691
"How the greatest part on't is an arrant cheat, and a mischievous one besides,--how little a while we generally stay in't, and yet how unfit to go out on't;--all these Reflections are now so strongly imprinted on my mind, that indeed I wonder how I could be perswaded to come abroad into Light."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"And how deeply his Character is imprinted in my heart, shall be seen by this Impression wrought off from it, shewing what he was, is, and none else ever shall be."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"He teaches sacred Myst'ries yet behind, / And stamps the Christian Image on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)