Date: 1757
"Behold, thro' fancy's mirrour, what a scene / The phantom opens, ample, wide, and fair, / Each golden minute, bearing as it flies / Imaginary raptures on its wing; / Flatt'ring my fond deluded heart with dreams / Of lasting pleasure--but alas, how soon / This fairy Eden to a waste is turn'd?"
preview | full record— Hervey, James (1714-1758)
Date: 1759
"By such a Search, she will Self-Knowledge gain, / And learn her ruling Passion to restrain; / She will herself, in Reason's Mirror, see, / And pleas'd, assert, her Immortality."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"If not with Prejudice, and Passion blind, / In Reason's Glass, you will your Error find. / Search the Recesses of the human Soul, / Mark there, what secret Springs her Acts controul."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1753, 1759, 1770
"But still in Fancy's mirror sees / Some more romantic scene would please, / There within a nook most dark, / Where none my musing mood may mark, / Let me, in many a whisper'd rite, / The Genius old of Greece invite, / With that fair wreath my brows to bind, / Which for his chosen imps he twin'd,...
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)
Date: 1759
"Each charm thro' Fancy's mirrour shone / Fresh as the rose, as lillies fair; / But, ah! the rose and lilly's gone, /Beauty has a small empire there, / And total ruin fears."
preview | full record— Stephens, Edward (fl. 1747-1765)
Date: 1761, 1765
"A taste, improv'd by Education, finds / Pleasures where none appear to ruder minds; / Scenes, where the croud but few attractions see, / Affect it in an exquisite degree: / As telescopes, the finer ground, convey / More striking beauties by the visual ray; / Or magnets, as prepar'd the mor...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1763
"A far-stretch'd mirror spreads: its Bosom shews / Th'inverted prospect, circled in with hills / And cliffs, a Theatre immense!"
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
Displays may be "Pregnant, beyond the nicest human search, / Where thought can pierce, or telescope can see"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1766
"Lightly she treads the russet Mead, / The Flowers, blushing, bow their Head, / And but in Fancy's Mirrour view, / Charms, as unsully'd, as their Hue."
preview | full record— Joel, Thomas (fl. 1766)