Date: 1741
"But soon his tender Mind th' Impression felt"
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Date: 1741
"Her curious Thoughts the Ring's Impression bear, / And new Ideas interrupt her Rest."
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Date: 1741
"What strong Impressions does Affection give? / By Fancy, Men have often ceas'd to live."
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Date: 1741
"The younger two were of a milder Kind, / And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind."
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Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
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Date: 1761
"Music, I said, is a vain sound, that only flatters the ear, and makes little or no impression upon the mind."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1761
"More than once I saw the tears come into his eyes, while his heart seemed moft tenderly affected: above all, I observed the powerful impressions which the triumphs of virtue made on his mind; and I please myself in having raised up for Claud Anet a new protector, no less zealous than your father."
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Date: 1761
"Love has insinuated itself too far into your mind, for you ever to drive it thence. It has eaten its way, has penetrated into its inmoft recesses, like a corrosive menstruum, whose impressions you will never be able to efface, without deftroying at the same time all that virtuous sensibility you...
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Date: 1761
"That divine image of virtue, imprinted universally on the mind, displays irresistible charms even to the least virtuous."
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Date: 1761
"O, my Eloisa, were it possible for this talisman to affect your senses with the phrenzy and illusion of mine. But why is it not possible? why may not those impressions, which the mind darts forth with such rapidity, reach as far as Eloisa?"
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