Date: 1772
"In Fancy's Mirror, we but darkling see, / What must, hereafter, our Advantage be."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1775
A new light may break in upon someone
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1790
"Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: November 19, 1793
"But with the assistance of my motto, I hope at once to elucidate the observation, brighten the mirror of fancy, and solve the fluctuation of doubt."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)