Date: 1796
"Yet on the youthful mind th' impression cast / Of ancient glory shall for ever last."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Too well, fair youth! thy lib'ral heart he knew; / A heart to Nature's warm impressions true!"
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
In Roman ampitheaters monarchs sat and watched "How beasts of prey could tear the human heart, / Rich with some lov'd impression.-"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"My sons, if rich, might wield / The fan emblaz'd with Psyche and her boy / O'er some enchantress, whose contagious sighs / Would blast the best impression of their souls."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1797
"The base controul / Of petty despots in their pedant reign / Already hast thou felt;--and high disdain / Of Tyrants is imprinted on thy soul."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)