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Work title:
"Impression [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Dictionary"
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Date: 1755
"Were the offices of religion stript of all the external decencies, they would not make a due impression on the mind."
preview | full record— Atterbury [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The false representations of the kingdom's enemies had made some impression in the mind of the successor."
preview | full record— Swift [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"There is a real knowledge of material things, when the thing itself, and the real action and impression thereof on our senses, is perceived"
preview | full record— Cheyne [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]