Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Mr. Showman, cried she, approaching, I am told you has something to shew in that there sort of magic lanthorn, by which folks can see themselves on the inside; I protest, as my lord Beetle says, I am sure it will be vastly pretty, for I have never seen any thing like it before. But how; are we t...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Dead Letters, thus with Living Notions fraught, / Prove to the Soul the Telescopes of Thought"
preview | full record— Grierson [née Crawley], Constantia (1704/5-1732)
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: 1767
"How transitory have been all my pleasures! the recollection of them dies on my memory, like the departing colours of the rainbow, which fades under the eye of the beholder, and leaves not a trace behind."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
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)
Date: 1768
"The mind sits terrified at the objects she has magnified herself and blackened; reduce them to their proper size and hue she overlooks them."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1772
"The Eye, that Orb of Light, which shews / The Features of the Mind, / Distinct, as faithful Mirrours yield / The Forms of human Kind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"In Fancy's Mirror, we but darkling see, / What must, hereafter, our Advantage be."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1775
A new light may break in upon someone
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)