Date: 1796

"You have made an impression upon her young heart which gives me the most serious alarm: to prevent that impression from growing stronger; I am obliged to decline your acquaintance. For me, you may be sure that I should rejoice at establishing my child so advantageously."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"The pleasures which he had just tasted for the first time were still impressed upon his mind: his brain was bewildered, and presented a confused chaos of remorse, voluptuousness, inquietude, and fear."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"It was by no means his nature to be timid: but his education had impressed his mind with fear so strongly, that apprehension was now become part of his character."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"This was an untruth, but she was unconscious of its falsehood: she knew not the nature of her sentiments for Lorenzo; and never having seen him since his first visit to Elvira, with every day his image grew less feebly impressed upon her bosom."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"The vision had made too strong an impression upon her mind, to permit her resting till assured of her daughter's safety."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"She had naturally a strong inclination to the marvellous; and her nurse, who believed firmly in apparitions, had related to her, when an infant, so many horrible adventures of this kind, that all Elvira's attempts had failed to eradicate their impressions from her daughter's mind."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"She could not believe that the spectre had been a mere creature of her imagination: every circumstance was impressed upon her mind too forcibly to permit her flattering herself with such an idea."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"In spite of Matilda's assurances, that the spectre was a mere creation of fancy, his mind was impressed with a certain mysterious horror."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"When animation revived in me, my soul was still impressed with these terrible ideas."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

Date: 1796

"The damning contract weighed heavy upon his mind; and the scenes in which he had been a principal actor, had left behind them such impressions as rendered his heart the seat of anarchy and confusion."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)