Date: 1077
"Most appropriately, therefore, the mind can be said to be its own mirror, in which it contemplates, so to speak, the image of its highest essence which it cannot see face to face."
preview | full record— St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Date: 1745
"These were Virtues unknown to him, who like the Ungrateful lessen'd the Obligations he had to her, by viewing his own Merit in the flattering Glass, his Fancy held before him. This false Mirror soon turn'd the Scale in his Favour, attributing her Choice of him to his own good Sense, which had Ar...
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1802
"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1805
"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)