imprest
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He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
I own belief may be imprest on the mind otherwise than by the force of reason.
From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner
While mony a kiss the seal imprest, The sacred vow,—we ne’er should sever.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
His version is this:— "Enough for me, if to some feeling breast, My lines a secret sympathy convey; And as their pleasing influence is imprest, A sigh of soft reflection heave for Gray."
From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
The chosen angels, and the spirits blest, Celestial tenants, on that glorious day My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
