"If therefore the gloomy hemisphere of fact intrude a mournful prospect on the eye, at least we may travel the regions of imagination, where fancy's mirror can present clearer sunshine."
— Dorset, Michael (fl. 1775-1782)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Evans
Date
1782
Metaphor
"If therefore the gloomy hemisphere of fact intrude a mournful prospect on the eye, at least we may travel the regions of imagination, where fancy's mirror can present clearer sunshine."
Metaphor in Context
If therefore the gloomy hemisphere of fact intrude a mournful prospect on the eye, at least we may travel the regions of imagination, where fancy's mirror can present clearer sunshine. Let us for a moment forget the perversion of that liberal and easy system established by our ancestors, and restore, at least, in idea, a millitia formed on the broad basis of constitutional right. Un-awed by military prejudice, their discipline shall be the child of reason, not the abortion of servility.--They shall be soldiers of the people. [...]
(pp. 199-200)
(pp. 199-200)
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Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1782).
An Essay on Defensive War, and a Constitutional Militia; With an Account of Queen Elizabeth’s Arrangements for Resisting the Projected Invasion in the Year 1588, Taken from Authentic Records in the British Museum, and Other Collections. by an Officer. (London: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand; J. Robson, New Bond-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1782).
An Essay on Defensive War, and a Constitutional Militia; With an Account of Queen Elizabeth’s Arrangements for Resisting the Projected Invasion in the Year 1588, Taken from Authentic Records in the British Museum, and Other Collections. by an Officer. (London: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand; J. Robson, New Bond-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1782).
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
