Date: 1715-1720
"[H]e would place in Opposition on one side the Son's Action which began the War, and on the other the Impressions of Concern or Repentance which it must by this time have made in the Father's Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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: 1758
"Such a one is the Person, who ought to be publicly lamented, for the Misfortunes into which he is fallen: not, by Heaven, either he who is born or dies; but he, whom it hath befallen while he lives to lose what is properly his own: not his paternal Possessions, his paultry Estate, or his House, ...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
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)