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Date: 1717
"Thy Heart, Courtwell, is like a Looking-Glass, it presently receives the Image of what is represented before it, and as soon loses it"
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: June 22, 1731
"The wise Man prepares himself for Death, by making it familiar to his Mind.--When strong Reflections hold the Mirror near,--and the Living in the Dead behold their future selves, how does each inordinate Passion and Desire cease or sicken at the View?"
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
