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: 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)
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: 1735
"Still can my Soul in Fancy's Mirrour view / Deeds glorious once."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1746, 1757
"Yet tho' to human Sight invisible, / If She, whom I implore, Urania deign, / With Euphrasy to purge away the Mists / Which, humid, dim the Mirror of the Mind; / (As Venus gave Æneas to behold / The angry Gods with Flame o'erwhelming Troy, / Neptune and Pallas,) not in vain, I'll sing / The mysti...
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1763
"A far-stretch'd mirror spreads: its Bosom shews / Th'inverted prospect, circled in with hills / And cliffs, a Theatre immense!"
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1766
"In judgment's sunshine fancy's flow'rets bloom, / And innocence exalts their fresh perfume: / No weeds of envy choke the fertile soil"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"She, whose bright presence, dull December's day / Might metamorphose into sprightly May; / Whose virtuous manners, and whose polish'd mind, / May stand the test and mirror of mankind."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)