Date: 1700

"This made the first impression in his mind / Above, but just above, the brutal kind."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1700, 1703, 1709

"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1700, 1717

"And, as the soften'd Wax new Seals receives, / This Face assumes, and that Impression leaves; / Now call'd by one, now by another Name; / The Form is only chang'd, the Wax is still the same."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1702

"But if a Love of the sublimest Kind / Can make Impressions on a gen'rous Mind:"

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

"Or how the Mem'ry does th' Impression take / Of Things, and to the Mind restores 'em back."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1703

"His Suff'rings on my Mind a deep Impression leave."

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

Date: 1703

"My Soul, with softning Airs, prepar'd by Fate, / Took the Impression of that charming Face,"

— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)

Date: 1704

"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)

Date: 1705

"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1705

"Such dire Impressions in his Heart remain / Of MARLBRÔ'S Sword, and HOCKSTET'S fatal Plain."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)