Date: 1749
"Which, among other Things, may serve as a Comment on that Saying of Æschines, that Drunkenness shews the Mind of a Man, as a Mirror reflects his Person."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"[H]er Vanity therefore retreated into her Mind, where there is no Looking-Glass, and consequently where we can flatter ourselves with discovering almost whatever Beauties we pleas"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
Behavior is the optic glass that makes visible what passes in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1786
"There was a time when my feelings gave the lie to their assertions; and holding the mirror of fancy before my eyes, shew'd me the future, in the happy present."
preview | full record— Lee, Harriet (1757/8-1851)
Date: 1788
"She had a metaphysical turn, which inclined her to reflect on every object that passed by her; and her mind was not like a mirror, which receives every floating image, but does not retain them: she had not any prejudices, for every opinion was examined before it was adopted."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)