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Date: 1736

"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1736, 1743

"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

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Date: 1737

"As pliant Wax each new Impression takes, / Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes, / Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide, / Tho' various Figures their Reception hide."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."

— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)

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Date: 1737

"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1737

"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1737

"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.