Careful Words

mirror (n.)

mirror (v.)

She's adorned

Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,—

The truest mirror that an honest wife

Can see her beauty in.

John Tobin (1770-1804): The Honeymoon. Act iii. Sc. 4.

We see time's furrows on another's brow,

And death intrench'd, preparing his assault;

How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627.

The mirror of all courtesy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 229.

  Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.

Aeschylus (525-456 b c): Agamemnon, 832.

  Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 1073.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form

Glasses itself in tempests.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 183.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,

Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

Charles Sprague (1791-1875): Curiosity.