Date: 1708

"A Sect which us'd to discourse of all things in Nature, by way of Parable and Similitude, and by that means represent the Images of them to the Imagination, and fix the Impressions of them in Men's Minds, as is customary in such Discourses as are made to the Vulgar."

— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)

Date: 1709

"Love, the Soft Seal, by which alone we find / Something of Angel stamp't on Human-kind; / While we, like Wax, to the Impression bow, / And find our Souls are One, we know not how."

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

Date: 1709

"Their Minds, just molded, the Impression took"

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

Date: 1709

"For they have Hearts Impression to receive, / And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave."

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

Date: 1709

"In Solid Dullness fixt, no Charms, no Art / Of Beauty makes Impression on thy Heart:"

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

Date: Saturday, July 16, to Tuesday, July 19, 1709

"Mars, Pallas, Bacchus, and Hercules, have each of them furnished very good similes in their time, and made, doubtless, a greater impression on the mind of a heathen, than they have on that of a modern reader."

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Date: Saturday, July 16, to Tuesday, July 19, 1709

"Mars, Pallas, Bacchus, and Hercules, have each of them furnished very good similes in their time, and made, doubtless, a greater impression on the mind of a heathen, than they have on that of a modern reader."

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Date: From Thursd. Nov. 24 to Saturd. Nov. 26. 1709

"I Have been this Evening recollecting what Passages (since I could first think) have left the strongest Impressions upon my Mind; and after strict Enquiry, I am convinced, that the Impulses I have received from Theatrical Representations, have had a greater Effect, than otherwise would have been...

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Date: From Thursd. Dec. 15. to Saturd. Dec. 17. 1709

"I am sure I feel it in so extraordinary a Manner, that I cannot in a Day or Two get out of my Imagination any very beautiful or disagreeable Impression which I receive on such Occasions."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1709

"Souls only can, sedate, receive / Th'Impression such a vast Delight does give"

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