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)
Date: 1733-1735
"Still be his Image on your Mind imprest; / Be that the Mirror which you most admire, / Mortality itself can rise no higher."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1733
Reason's "clear Mirror" can reflect the past actions and represent passions
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733-4
"For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Customs or Int'rests govern all Mankind, / Some Biass cleaves to the unguarded Mind; / Thro' this, as in a false or flatt'ring Glass / Things seem to change their Natures as they pass."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734
"Or Fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735
"Still can my Soul in Fancy's Mirrour view / Deeds glorious once."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1736
"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737, 1743
"The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by shewing its Faults; as when a Stream discovers the Dirt at the bottom, it convinceth us of the transparency and purity of the Water."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)