Date: 1789?
"If conscious Genius stamp their chosen breast, / And on the forehead show her seal impressed."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1799
Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1801
"Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1802
"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1803
"But give the tone of brain, the nerves which bear / Faithful impressions strong; give the mild sun / Of opportunity to dart its rays; / Give leisure, curious search, the strenuous thought / Aiming at worth superlative, give time / Which solely perfects wisdom; and the form / Of Genius will arise"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. 1798, 1803-4
"He had perceived the presence and the power / Of greatness, and deep feelings had impressed / Great objects on his mind with portraiture / And colour so distinct that on his mind / They lay like substances, and almost seemed / To haunt the bodily sense."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)