Date: 1605, 1640
"By which wordes he declares, not obscurely, that God hath framed the Mind of Man, as a Mirror or Glasse capable of the Image of the universall world, and as joyfull to receive the impressions thereof, as the eye joyeth to receave light; and not only delighted in the beholding, the variety of thi...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1609
"The vacant leaues thy mindes imprint will beare, / And of this booke, this learning maist thou taste."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1614
"That there is a God; ... This is a common notion, and impression, sealed up in the minde of every man."
preview | full record— Purchas, Samuel (bap. 1577, d. 1626)
Date: 1615
"[W]e are also of [Adam's] off-spring; not that I conceive (as some blasphemously have done) that he was made out of the very essence of God, but because the image of the divine nature, is most lively imprinted in his soul and in his body, and in the substance & qualities of them both. For the So...
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: 1615
"For that first matter receiveth but particular and individual forms, and that without understanding: in the Soul are imprinted the universal forms of things, and it hath also understanding to judge of them."
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: 1635
"'Tis said that Polo the Tragedian / When hee on Stage to force some passion came, / Had his Sonnes ashes in an Urne enshrin'd / To worke more deepe impressions in his mind."
preview | full record— Brathwaite, Richard (1587/8-1673)
Date: 1652
"As he could perceive no connate colours, no pictures or portraictures in his external eye: so neither could he finde any signatures in his minde till some outward objects had made some impression upon his [GREEK] his soft and plyable understanding impartially prepared for every seal."
preview | full record— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)
Date: 1666
"'Twill much oblige the Nation, for they'l finde / Your Play stampt with the Figure of your Minde;"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"Youth and white paper take any impression."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1679
"You'l find it worse and worse; and what's behind / Will strange Impressions make upon your Mind."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)