Date: w. 1703, 1712
"The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin / In frightful Views, and makes it Day within."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"There is [a Comparison] of great Beauty in Virgil, upon a Subject very like this, where he compares his Hero's Mind, agitated with a great Variety and quick Succession of Thoughts, to a dancing Light reflected from a Vessel of Water in Motion."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1717
Shakespeare was "the Genius of our Isle, whose Mind / (The universal Mirror of Mankind) / Express'd all Images"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1718
"Conscience is at best a doubtful Light"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
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)