Date: 1691
"Dancing, Singing, Swearing, Impudence, / Can make Impressions upon easie sense"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1691
"If helps to Valour we should stand in need, / Let us reflect upon the breach of Oaths, / Truces and Edicts sign'd by treacherous French, / Let's think of Phillipsburg, Spire, Worms, and other / Once famous Towns, now heaps of Dirt and Ruines, / Let this within our minds form such impressions / O...
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1704
"No Pen can describe it, no Tongue can express it, no Thought conceive it, unless some of those who were in the Extremity of it; and who, being touch'd with a due sense of the sparing Mercy of their Maker, retain the deep Impressions of his Goodness upon their Minds, tho' the Danger be past: and ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1706, 1709
"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Then let thy Name be well imprest / As a fair Signet on my Breast."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)