Date: 1685
"God is accustom'd seriously to show / To men (what often they conceal for shame) / Their future state i'th' mirrour of a dream."
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
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: 1725
"Momus himself cou'd not have more descry'd, / Had he his Window to the Mind apply'd, / (So clear the Images appear) than we / In this true Philosophick Mirror see."
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Date: 1733-4
"For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light"
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Date: 1761, 1765
"A taste, improv'd by Education, finds / Pleasures where none appear to ruder minds; / Scenes, where the croud but few attractions see, / Affect it in an exquisite degree: / As telescopes, the finer ground, convey / More striking beauties by the visual ray; / Or magnets, as prepar'd the mor...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)