Date: 1605?
"Within thine eyes (the Mirrors of my minde) / Mine eies behold themselues, wherein they see / (As through a Glasse) what in my Soule I find; / And so my Soules right shape I see in thee."
preview | full record— Davies, John (1564/5-1618)
Date: 1621
One may have "A soule tra-lucent in an open brest"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1658
"May not our eyes bee very well defin'd / The Looking-glass of Nature, and the minde."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"In every Brook or Mirrour we can find / Reflections of our face to be; / But a true Optick to present our Mind / We hardly get, and darkly see."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1679
The eyes are "False mirrors of an Heart, which deeper lies."
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: November, 1682
"Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led / From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"For whatsoe're the mighty Men of Sense, / Those skulls of Axiome and Philosophy, / By reasons Telescope pretend t' evince, / Beyond this World we can no other see"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1691
Speech is the "Delight of Life and Mirrour of the Heart, / By which our Thoughts, which none can see, / We to our own and others Joys impart."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"The Sense deceivs us, and like Painted Glass / Tinges all Objects, that do thrô it pass."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)