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Date: 1748

"Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;"

— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)

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Date: 1758

"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

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Date: 1758

"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

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Date: 1792

"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1792

The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.