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: 1757, 1769
"Banish the dire impression from my breast. / For still I see the monster, as he stood."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1769
"But conscious that a mind by virtue steel'd, / To no impression of distress will yield."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"From a stranger hand / Ah, what can infancy expect, when she / Whose essence was inwove with thine, whose life, / Whose soul thou didst participate, neglects / Herself in thee, and breaks the strongest seal / Which nature stamp'd in vain upon her heart"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"Well-skill'd / To form the growing soul, and on its young / And opening bud to fix the impression deep / Of every generous thought"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)