Date: 1872

"At Shakespear's happy birth / With fire ethereal Jove his soul endow'd, / Then bade him spurn the narrow bounds of earth, / And sordid wishes of the grov'ling crowd, / That chain the free-born mind."

— Laurence, French (1757-1809)

Date: 1873

"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."

— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

Date: 1874

"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: Date Unknown

A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"

— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

Date: 1876

"What art thou, Mind, that mirror'st things unseen, / Giv'st to the dead the smiles which erst they wore, / And lift'st the veil which fate hath cast between / Thee and the forms which are not, but have been?"

— Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

Date: 1876

"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"

— Hogg, James (1770-1835)

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: 1785, 1881

"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1883

"Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars / With memory of the old revolt from Awe, / He reached a middle height, and at the stars, / Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank"

— Meredith, George (1828-1909)

Date: 1888

"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."

— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)