Date: 1765
Displays may be "Pregnant, beyond the nicest human search, / Where thought can pierce, or telescope can see"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"And we shall be as so many Mirrors, wherein our divine Friend and Father shall delight to behold the express Image of his own Person, his own Perfections and Beatitudes represented for ever."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1766
"Lightly she treads the russet Mead, / The Flowers, blushing, bow their Head, / And but in Fancy's Mirrour view, / Charms, as unsully'd, as their Hue."
preview | full record— Joel, Thomas (fl. 1766)
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)
Date: 1767, 1784
"So, when on some weighty truth / A beam of heav'nly light its lustre sheds, / To Reason's eye it looks supremely fair."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
"The curious structure of these visual orbs, / The windows of the mind; substance how clear, / Aqueous, or crystalline! through which the soul, / As thro' a glass, all outward things surveys."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1768
The blind may be given the "better graces of the mind," such as "Genius, and Learning's Thews, and Judgement's light"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1768
"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"
preview | full record— Wynne, Edward (1734-1784)
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)