Date: 1768
"And now elate in fancy's mirrour view, / Those hopeful plains where Mantua's poplars grew."
preview | full record— Sterling, Joseph (fl. 1765-1794)
Date: 1770
"Destructive eyes, false mirrors of the heart! / I, to my sorrow know the lies you've told me."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1771
"Grace, that with tenderness and sense combin'd / To form that harmony of soul and face, / Where beauty shines the mirror of the mind."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1772-1781
What availed the songs of a "mighty mind, / With inward light irradiate, mirror-like / Receiv'd, and to mankind with ray reflex / The sov'reign Planter's primal work display'd?"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1772
"The Eye, that Orb of Light, which shews / The Features of the Mind, / Distinct, as faithful Mirrours yield / The Forms of human Kind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"In Fancy's Mirror, we but darkling see, / What must, hereafter, our Advantage be."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1775
"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our...
preview | full record— Shepherd, Richard (1731/2-1809)
Date: 1775
"Before the queen an oval mirror stands, / The curious labor of her active hands; / Ample its size; of wondrous texture wrought; / With pow'r endu'd, surpassing human thought."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)
Date: 1775
"On this deceptive mirror FANCY gaz'd; / For in its field she saw whate'er she pleas'd: / Whate'er in thought her fertile brain design'd, / (The varying labours of her changeful mind,) / Whate'er she wills, within its orb she spies, / True to her wish the airy visions rise."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)