Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1749
"Nature's bright Mirrour in thy Bosom shone"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
"Still to my Sight, in Fancy's Mirror seen, / With all the Energy of Voice and Mien, / Still Barry's Force o'erwhelms my shrinking Heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1764
"Dead Letters, thus with Living Notions fraught, / Prove to the Soul the Telescopes of Thought"
preview | full record— Grierson [née Crawley], Constantia (1704/5-1732)
Date: 1768
"And now elate in fancy's mirrour view, / Those hopeful plains where Mantua's poplars grew."
preview | full record— Sterling, Joseph (fl. 1765-1794)
Date: 1772
"The Eye, that Orb of Light, which shews / The Features of the Mind, / Distinct, as faithful Mirrours yield / The Forms of human Kind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"In Fancy's Mirror, we but darkling see, / What must, hereafter, our Advantage be."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)