Catullus is one of the great poets of the world, not so much through gifts of imagination-though with these he was well endowed-as through his singleness of nature, his vivid Impressibility, and his keen perception.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The inadequacy of his philosophy may thus be traced partly to his vivid Impressibility of imagination, which made him too exclusively sensible of the awe produced on man's spirit by the mystery of the universe, partly to his defective sympathy with the active interests and duties of life.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Her own fears bespeak the probability that Mrs. Nurse was very impressible by mind not her own-that she was highly mediumistic; and we ascribe her persecution to her Impressibility.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam