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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1715
"As unregarded thro' the Vaulted Skies, / The Wat'ry South in Noisy Tempest flies: / Just so the vain Expressions touch our Mind, / Nor any strong Impressions leave behind."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1715
"When all alone she was surpriz'd to find / Such strong Impressions on her feeble Mind."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1742
"Of this number I could name a Peer no less elevated by Nature than by Fortune, who whilst he wears the noblest Ensigns of Honour on his Person, bears the truest Stamp of Dignity on his Mind, adorned with Greatness, enriched with Knowledge, and embelished with Genius."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1742
"But as it happens to Persons, who have in their Infancy been thoroughly frightned with certain no Persons called Ghosts, that they retain their Dread of those Beings, after they are convinced that there are no such things; so these young Ladies, tho' they no longer apprehend devouring, cannot so...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1796
"Yet on the youthful mind th' impression cast / Of ancient glory shall for ever last."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"Too well, fair youth! thy lib'ral heart he knew; / A heart to Nature's warm impressions true!"
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"My sons, if rich, might wield / The fan emblaz'd with Psyche and her boy / O'er some enchantress, whose contagious sighs / Would blast the best impression of their souls."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1798
"Add to this, Mary had fixed her heart upon this chosen friend; and one of the last impressions a worthy mind can submit to receive, is that of the worthlessness of the person upon whom it has fixed all its esteem."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Finally, when she indulged a romantic affection for Mr. Fuseli, and fondly imagined that she should find in it the solace of her cares, she perceived too late, that, by continually impressing on her mind fruitless images of unreserved affection and domestic felicity, it only served to give new p...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
