Date: 1817
"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"In our perceptions we seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817, 1818
"'twas her lover's face-- / It might resemble her--it once had been / The mirror of her thoughts, and still the grace / Which her mind's shadow cast, left there a lingering trace"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1817, 1818
"Look on your mind--it is the book of fate-- / Ah! it is dark with many a blazoned name / Of misery--all are mirrors of the same"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"He might as wisely and as easily determine that his mind should no longer be the mirror of all that is lovely in the visible universe as exclude from his contemplation the beautiful which exists in the writings of a great contemporary."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"Every man's mind is, in this respect, modified by all the objects of Nature and art; by every word and every suggestion which he ever admitted to act upon his consciousness; it is the mirror upon which all forms are reflected and in which they compose one form."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1822
"Thrice has a gloomy vision hunted me / As thus from sleep into the troubled day; / It shakes me as the tempest shakes the sea, / Leaving no figure upon memory's glass"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1822-8
"When Raphael went, / His heavenly face the mirror of his mind, / His mind a temple for all lovely things / To flock to and inhabit"
preview | full record— Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855)
Date: 1824
"What was this grief, which ne'er in other minds / A mirror found"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)