Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Oh! I'm sick to the soul, to see Music alone, / Stretch her negligent length on the Drama's gay throne; / Where Muses more honor'd by Wisdom should sit, / To adorn the heart's mirror, and fashion our wit"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
"And o'er Imagination's gloomy glass, / Despair's mute sons like Banquo's visions pass"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)
Date: w. 1780, 1792
"Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start / From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1793
"To paint th' ecstatic tumult of their souls, / The rapture of deliverance from death / Thus threatenting, and the mutual joys of safety, / Description aims not, for too weak her power, / Too faint her colours: diffident she points / To fancy's faithful mirror, and then drops / Her useless pencil."
preview | full record— Kett, Henry (1761-1825)
Date: 1780, 1798
"What can the youth in fancy's mirror view / Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?"
preview | full record— Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733-1813); Sotheby, Richard (1757-1833)
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)
Date: 1805
"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1807
"Shakespear's page, my Lucy, shall unroll / To thy rapt sight the mirror of the soul"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Date: 1812
"The eye, which speaks the soul divine, / The face, which shews the nobler mind, / As on the mirror living objects shine, / In earth or heavens, what beams there so refin'd?"
preview | full record— Dyer, George (1755-1841)