Date: 1728
"Say, to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1733-1735
"Still be his Image on your Mind imprest; / Be that the Mirror which you most admire, / Mortality itself can rise no higher."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1733
Reason's "clear Mirror" can reflect the past actions and represent passions
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733-4
"For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Customs or Int'rests govern all Mankind, / Some Biass cleaves to the unguarded Mind; / Thro' this, as in a false or flatt'ring Glass / Things seem to change their Natures as they pass."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734
"Or Fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735
"Still can my Soul in Fancy's Mirrour view / Deeds glorious once."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Not so the moral species, nor the powers / Of genius and design; the ambitious mind / There sees herself: by these congenial forms / Touch'd and awaken'd, with intenser act / She bends each nerve, and meditates well-pleas'd / Her features in the mirror."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)