Date: 1722, 1725
"I got into an Arbor in the Garden, to peruse the dear Contents, which I very well remember, and are too deeply engraven in my Mind, ever to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722
"I endeavour'd to Reason my self out of it, but it was in vain, the Impression lay so strong on my Mind, that it was not to be resisted."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I had deeper Impressions upon my Mind all that Night"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I had such strong Impressions on my Mind about discovering my self to my old Husband"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I relate this in the very manner in which things then appear'd to me, as far as I am able; but infinitely short of the lively impressions which they made on my Soul at that time"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"However, these Thoughts left some Impression upon me, and made me act with some more caution than before"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1723
"Having thus cleaned and polish'd the Soul, it becomes a pure Tabula Rasa, fit for the best or worst Impressions."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1692, 1724
"I must confess, said she, I am no ways alarm'd to hear of the Prince's Passion for a fine Woman, and am vain enough to flatter my self, that when he sees me I shall have it in my Power to deface the Impression she might have made on his Heart."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
Date: 1692, 1724
"How difficult a Task will it be, to make an Impression on that unpractis'd Heart?"
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
Date: 1692, 1724
"We us'd to see but little Company, according to the Custom of Spain; but my Father having receiv'd into his House a young Gentleman of a distinguish'd Family in Toledo, whose Name is Don Ramire of Castro, a secret Sympathy dispos'd his Heart and mine, to receive Impressions for each other."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)