Date: 1715-1720
One should "grieve not excessively, let not sorrow make too great an Impression upon thy Heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"As pliant Wax each new Impression takes, / Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes, / Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide, / Tho' various Figures their Reception hide."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Stamp thy whole Image on our Heart, / And all our Souls be Thine!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1765
"The man is blessed, as he prays, / Whose reins thy strength receive, / And in whose heart thy word and ways / A deep impression leave."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1770
"These objects banish care, they set us loose / From mean attachments, and compose our souls / For fine impressions, and for heavenly airs:"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)