Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"[B]ut we range delighted and jocund through the gay apartments of the palace, because nothing is impressed by them on the mind but joy and festivity."
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Date: 1752
" If meer Antiquities of ev'ry kind / Impress a pleasing Rev'rence on the Mind"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752
"Their Task discharg'd, and anxious how to lose / The least Impressions, recent on the Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: August, 1752
"The softenâd heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1752
"The secret Charm in the Countenance, Voice, and Manner of the Countess, join'd to the Force of her reasoning, could not fail of making some Impression on the Mind of Arabella"
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Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"It was now day, and fear was so strongly impressed on his mind, that he could sleep no more."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752
"His Mind was formed of those firm Materials, of which Nature formerly hammered out the Stoic, and upon which the Sorrows of no Man living could make an Impression. "
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: February 4, 1752
"My parents, though otherwise not great philosophers, knew the force of early education, and took care that the blank of my understanding should be filled with impressions of the value of money."
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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"
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