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Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1768
"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"
preview | full record— Wynne, Edward (1734-1784)
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)
