Date: 1799

Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1801

"Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1802

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1803

"WHEN the awaken'd soul receives / The first impression fancy gives / Temper'd by soft affection's reign, / Sweet are the days of pleasing pain."

— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)

Date: 1803

"But give the tone of brain, the nerves which bear / Faithful impressions strong; give the mild sun / Of opportunity to dart its rays; / Give leisure, curious search, the strenuous thought / Aiming at worth superlative, give time / Which solely perfects wisdom; and the form / Of Genius will arise"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1803

The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."

— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)

Date: w. 1798, 1803-4

"He had perceived the presence and the power / Of greatness, and deep feelings had impressed / Great objects on his mind with portraiture / And colour so distinct that on his mind / They lay like substances, and almost seemed / To haunt the bodily sense."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: w. 1805

"Oh! why hath not the mind / Some element to stamp her image on / In nature somewhat nearer to her own?"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: w. 1805

"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)