Date: 1802
"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."
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Date: 1817
"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"In our perceptions we seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)