Date: 1773
"Compassion, for instance, was not impressed upon the human heart, only to adorn the fair face with tears, and to give an agreeable languor to the eyes; it was designed to excite our utmost endeavours to relieve the sufferer."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Boys, in their school learning, have this kind of knowledge impressed on their minds by a variety of books: but women, who do not go through the same course of instruction, are very apt to forget what little they read or hear on the subject."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"But, when you come to the Grecian and Roman stories, I expect to find you deeply interested and highly entertained; and, of consequence, eager to treasure up in your memory those heroic actions and exalted characters by which a young mind is naturally so much animated and impressed."
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Date: 1775
"To account for the idea of time, it appears to me to be sufficient to attend to a few well known facts, viz. that impressions made by external objects remain a certain space of time in the mind, that this time is different according to the strength, and other circumstances of the impression, and...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1775
"If I look upon a house, and then shut my eyes, the impression it has made upon my mind does not immediately vanish."
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Date: w. 1805
"Oh! why hath not the mind / Some element to stamp her image on / In nature somewhat nearer to her own?"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)