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Date: Friday, March 19, 1725

"And, to say all in a Word, Where Description alone appears too weak to imprint an Idea on the Mind of a Reader, there the only effectual Remedy is to have Recourse to a Simile."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1727

"The Steward had no publick Notice of any Harm approaching; but for three or four Days successively he had secret strange Impulses of Dread and Terror upon his Mind that the House was beset, and was to be assaulted by a Troop of Banditti, or as we call them here, House-breakers, who would murther...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1727

"But in the midst of these Tumults of his Soul, he had a strong Impression upon his Mind, that he could never die in Peace, nor ever go to Heaven, if he did not go over to England, and either get the Parliament's Pardon (for it was in those Days when there was no King in Israel) or that if he cou...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1727

"All the way as he walk'd his Mind was heavy, and oppress'd; and he frequently said to his Brother who walk'd with him, that he was certain he was going to London to be surpriz'd: and so strong was the foreboding Impression upon his Mind, that he once stop'd at Hornsey, and endeavoured to get a L...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1727

"The Impression upon his Mind continuing, he stop'd again at Islington, and endeavour'd to get a Lodging there; but could not: so at last, when his Brother brought him word he could not get a Lodging, except where it was too publick, Well, says he, than I must go to London, and take what follows;...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1727

"He endeavoured to wear it off of his Mind, but it [would] not do; the Impression to be sure would be strengthned by his own Guilt, and both together brought him to himself."

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1727

"Upon what Religious Foundation can we suggest, that the Sins of the Children should disquiet the Fathers in their Graves, or that the Souls departed can receive any Impression from the Behaviour of those in Life, subsequent to any Action those Souls departed have been concern'd in?"

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: Friday, February 1727

"The strongest Arguments leave no Impression on his Mind, and the clearest Truth has no Charms in his Eyes."

— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]

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Date: 1728

"IMPRESSION, a Term in Philosophy, apply'd to the Species of Objects, which are supposed to make some Mark or Impression on the Senses, the Mind, and the Memory."

— Chambers, Ephraim (1680?–1740)

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Date: 1729

"As these several Remarks had made great Impressions upon the Minds of Persons of undoubted Sense, and so esteem'd by the Publick, P. began to repent of the Affront he had offer'd me, and the Injury he had attempted to do me."

— Dennis, John (1658-1734)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.