Date: w. 1703, 1712
"The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin / In frightful Views, and makes it Day within."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"There is [a Comparison] of great Beauty in Virgil, upon a Subject very like this, where he compares his Hero's Mind, agitated with a great Variety and quick Succession of Thoughts, to a dancing Light reflected from a Vessel of Water in Motion."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"Speech was given to Man as the Image and Interpreter of the Soul: It is anime index & speculum, the Messenger of the Heart, the Gate by which all that is within issues forth, and comes into open View."
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)
Date: 1717
"Thy Heart, Courtwell, is like a Looking-Glass, it presently receives the Image of what is represented before it, and as soon loses it"
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
Date: 1717
Shakespeare was "the Genius of our Isle, whose Mind / (The universal Mirror of Mankind) / Express'd all Images"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1718
"Conscience is at best a doubtful Light"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1722
"O! what a felicity is it to Mankind, said I, to myself, that they cannot see into the Hearts of one another!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1727
"But leaving it therefore where we find it, I say if you see an Apparition, that is such an Apparition as we have been speaking of, not a Phantosm of your own Brain, not an imaginary Apparition the effect of Fright or Dream, or meer Whimsie, not a Hypocondriack Apparition, the effect of Vapours a...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1728
"Say, to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)