Date: 1748
"But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: w. 1740, 1748
"But when your early Care shall have design'd / To plan the Soul and mould the waxen Mind; / When you shall pour upon his tender Breast / Ideas that must stand an Age's Test, / Oh! there imprint with strongest deepest dye / The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!"
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1752
" If meer Antiquities of ev'ry kind / Impress a pleasing Rev'rence on the Mind"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752
"Their Task discharg'd, and anxious how to lose / The least Impressions, recent on the Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: August, 1752
"The softenâd heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1753
"A beautiful horse, and fine armour, were objects which must naturally have made an impression on the mind of one so young as Ascanius"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1753
Aeneas's grief and distress were an "indication of his great tenderness, sensibility, and conjugal affection; and as such, must needs make a very deep impression on Dido's Heart"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1754
"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: w. 1737-1742, published 1755, 1764, 1773
"And the more I with study my fancy refin'd, / The deeper impression she made on my mind."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1755, 1836
The Maker has "impress'd" on the human breast, a "sense of kindred, country, man"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)