Date: Tuesday, November 19, 1751
"We frequently fall into errour and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be e...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, February 9, 1751
"The general resemblance of the sound to the sense is to be found in every language which admits of poetry, in every author whose force of fancy enables him to impress images strongly on his own mind, and whose choice and variety of language readily supply him with just representations."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"[B]ut we range delighted and jocund through the gay apartments of the palace, because nothing is impressed by them on the mind but joy and festivity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752
" If meer Antiquities of ev'ry kind / Impress a pleasing Rev'rence on the Mind"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752
"Their Task discharg'd, and anxious how to lose / The least Impressions, recent on the Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"It was now day, and fear was so strongly impressed on his mind, that he could sleep no more."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: February 4, 1752
"My parents, though otherwise not great philosophers, knew the force of early education, and took care that the blank of my understanding should be filled with impressions of the value of money."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1755
"He bade me tell thee, / That in his Heart indelibly are stamp'd / His Father's Wrongs, and Thine."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)