Date: 1802

"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1805

"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."

— 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"

— 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?"

— Dyer, George (1755-1841)

Date: 1816

"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."

— Story, Robert (1795-1860)

Date: 1819

"He was yet bending thoughtful o'er the fountain, / Which nothing did but sparkle, play, and curl, / And in the mirror of his mind was counting / Each brilliant drop which fell like orient pearl"

— Wiffen, Jermiah Holmes (1792-1836)

Date: 1824

"In his soul's mirror Ellen had grown dim, / And yet she was unchanged--though not for him!"

— Moir, David Macbeth (1798-1851)

Date: 1832

"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

Date: 1850

"The images that play / Upon the mirror of the mind, will pierce / And burst the veil, and strive to show their shapes, / And tints of bright magnificence and beauty / Before a wondering world"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

Date: 1850

"And, like the lake by storm or moonlight seen, / With darkening furrows or cerulean mien, / His countenance, the mirror of his breast, / The calm or trouble of his soul express'd"

— Montgomery, James (1771-1854)