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Date: 1808

"Let us awhile divert our spleen, / Recall the gay, the cheerful scene; /Awhile in Fancy's mirror trace / The social night, the joyous chase"

— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)

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Date: 1819

One may behold "the mirror truth" within

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1842

"The images of past delight / Have fleeted from her troubled sight, / And left no perfect form behind / On the dim mirror of the mind"

— Herbert, William (1778-1847)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.