"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Watts
Date
November 10, 1730
Metaphor
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
Metaphor in Context
CHORUS.
Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects,
Makes known our Defects, makes known our Defects;
Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects,
Let none the just Mirror despise.
What Virtue so bright but Reflection improves,
Or Folly so stubborn, but what it removes?
Reflect, be happy, and wise.
(III, xxii, p. 77)
Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects,
Makes known our Defects, makes known our Defects;
Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects,
Let none the just Mirror despise.
What Virtue so bright but Reflection improves,
Or Folly so stubborn, but what it removes?
Reflect, be happy, and wise.
(III, xxii, p. 77)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Drama); found again in ECCO-TCP
Citation
7 entries in the ESTC (1730, 1731, 1775).
See George Lillo, Silvia; or, the Country Burial. An Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP><Link to Google Books>
See George Lillo, Silvia; or, the Country Burial. An Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
11/30/2005
