Date: w. 1740, 1748
"Thirsting for Knowledge, but to know the right, / Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight, / To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell, / And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1749
"Nature's bright Mirrour in thy Bosom shone"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1750, 1770
"And, Morpheus, thus may thy mild Lethéan powers, / For ever hovering round my midnight hours, / Thro' Fancy's mirror wrap me in idéal joy."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William Gerard (1729-1796)
Date: 1750
"A mind in wisdom old, in lenience young, / From fervent truth where every virtue sprung; / Where all was real, modest, plain, sincere; / Worth above show, and goodness unsevere: / View'd round and round, as lucid diamonds throw / Still as you turn them a revolving glow, / So did his mind reflect...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The mirrour, faithful to its charge, / Reflects the virgin's soul in large."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
"Still to my Sight, in Fancy's Mirror seen, / With all the Energy of Voice and Mien, / Still Barry's Force o'erwhelms my shrinking Heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
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: 1757
"Shall ev'ry blockhead think his mind, / Like yours, the mirrour of mankind?"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"Behold, thro' fancy's mirrour, what a scene / The phantom opens, ample, wide, and fair, / Each golden minute, bearing as it flies / Imaginary raptures on its wing; / Flatt'ring my fond deluded heart with dreams / Of lasting pleasure--but alas, how soon / This fairy Eden to a waste is turn'd?"
preview | full record— Hervey, James (1714-1758)