Date: 1842

"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

Date: 1860

"You have never seen Mr Wakem before, and are possibly wondering whether he was really as eminent a rascal and as crafty, bitter an enemy of honest humanity in general and of Mr Tulliver in particular, as he is represented to be in that eidolon or portrait of him which we have seen to exist in th...

— Eliot, George (1819-1880)

Date: 1868

"Thy lovely portraiture we find / Engraven on our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"So deeply engraven I find / Thy form on my desolate heart!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: April 26 1870

"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Date: 1876

"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"

— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)

Date: 1885

"For example, to express our ideas concerning their physical basis we use different metaphors--stored up ideas, engraved images, well-beaten paths."

— Ebbinghaus, Hermann (1850-1909)