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Date: 1807
"Shakespear's page, my Lucy, shall unroll / To thy rapt sight the mirror of the soul"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Date: 1815
The wavering motions of the mind are like "quivering light" reflected off a confined "crystal flood" in a brass cistern
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1832
"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
