Date: 1705
"Perhaps what seems to one Black, may seem to another of a different Colour; in short, we cannot absolutely determine whether or no the Eyes are not like Glasses differently cut, which after that manner changes the Colours of Objects."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: April 20, 1796
"Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever! / --Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror, / It gives a perfect image in each fragment!"
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)