Date: May 10, 1704

"The deepest account, and the most fairly digested of any I have yet met with is this, that air being a heavy body, and therefore, according to the system of Epicurus, continually descending, must needs be more so when laden and pressed down by words, which are also bodies of much weight and grav...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: 1719

"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."

— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)

Date: 1739, 1741

"In These, whatever Sense first strikes their Thought, / (Or wrong or right) th' Impression deep is wrought"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"But soon his tender Mind th' Impression felt"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"Her curious Thoughts the Ring's Impression bear, / And new Ideas interrupt her Rest."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"What strong Impressions does Affection give? / By Fancy, Men have often ceas'd to live."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"The younger two were of a milder Kind, / And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1759

"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1759

"From their children, if they have less to fear, they have less also to hope, and they lose, without equivalent the joys of early love and the convenience of uniting with manners pliant, and minds susceptible of new impressions, which might wear away their dissimilitudes by long cohabitation, as ...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1777

"These words cannot be forgotten! they press upon my mind with the sacredness of a parent's dying instructions!"

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)