Date: 1733

"One beauteous Form has struck upon the Mind, / A sweet Impression, casual, or design'd."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

"The deep Impression in my Soul was made, / When first I listen'd in the Jess'min Shade."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1735

"Come, gentle Sleep, my Eye-lids close, / These dull Impressions help me lose:"

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

Date: 1736

"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736, 1743

"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1737

One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."

— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)

Date: 1737

"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)