Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"Thoughts of God and a Saviour would come into my Mind, and the pious Impressions of my Infancy would return upon me; but I did my best to banish them, as they served but to torment me."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"I said, you have been dreaming; and the Impression still lies heavy and melancholy on your Memory"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1767

"His mind, however, was by pleasure rendered too volatile to suffer any thing to make a lasting impression on him; and he had still too many resources of happiness in his power, to give himself up to despair."

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1767

"Whilst on the other hand, every affliction with which I have been visited, has imprinted a deep and lasting wound on my heart, which not even the hand of time itself has been able to heal."

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1767

"Whilst on the other hand, every affliction with which I have been visited, has imprinted a deep and lasting wound on my heart, which not even the hand of time itself has been able to heal."

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1768

"Maria, tho' not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms--affliction had touch'd her looks with something that was scarce earthly--still she was feminine--and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman, that could the traces be ever wor...

— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)

Date: 1776

"Ah, Stanley! I have no hopes of making any impression on her heart, either at Delville, or in Berkeley-square."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"The being a prisoner, was the only species of calamity she had not yet experienced; her mind was impressed with horror at the idea, and whilst her worse than savage landlady, went out to seek a constable, she stole softly out of the house, and fled she knew not whither."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"But remember, my sister--"They never knew to love, that knew to change;" and be assured, that no other woman can ever make the slightest impression upon the heart of your sincerely affectionate brother."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"When Dr. Johnson speaks, we listen with respect and admiration, and feel our minds impressed with such an attentive kind of veneration, as I imagine was paid to the oracles of old."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)