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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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Date: 1723
"Alfred awakens from the Vision, which leaves deep Impression on his Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"For still we find Plebeian Minds are sway'd / By strong Impressions on the Senses made"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"When Alfred thus had view'd with ravish'd Eyes / These bright Etherial Seats, these happy Skies, / Which on his Soul divine Impressions made, / And high Idea's to his Thought convey'd, / They by Degrees descended thro' the Air / To the sad Realms of Horrour and Despair; / The Walks of Death, and...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"While shiv'ring Chillness seizes every Vein, / Slackens their Sinews and disturbs their Brain, / Which deep Impressions left of various Kind, / That pain the Body or afflict the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1745
"The Idea of her lov'd Orsino presented itself to her distracted Imagination like an incens'd Lover to demand an Account of her Conduct: Which made such an Impression on her Mind, that she could scarce find Amusements for a few Hours, in all the Pleasures that surrounded her."
preview | full record— Anonymous
