A copious account of the Mirrour for Magistrates occupies the forty-eighth and three following sections of the History of Poetry, p.
We have seen this already in other subjects than poetry; and in that we may appeal to such parts of the Mirrour of Magistrates as are not written by Sackville, to the writings of Churchyard, or to those of Gouge and Turberville.
And the mirrour showed a man of ripe age with smooth round face and a pair of very blue eyes.
He also wrote the Falls of Shore's Wife and of Cardinal Wolsey; which are inserted into the Book of the Mirrour for Magistrates.
Dost loue her, my finest and first part of the Mirrour of Knighthood?
The first edition of the 'Mirrour for Magistrates' appeared in 1559, and was wholly composed by Baldwyn and Ferrers.
This was his 'Mirrour for Magistrates,' a poem intended to celebrate the chief of the illustrious unfortunates in British history, such as King Richard II.
He is chiefly celebrated as the author of the earliest English tragedy in blank verse, Gordubuc, and The Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates, one of the noblest poems in the language.
God have mercy on his soul, for he was a most wise and noble prince, and the mirrour of all courtesie”—that was written of him at the time.
The second alphabet contains, with head-title, 'The Mirrour of good Maners.
The Mirrour of Mirth, and pleasant Conceits: containing, Many proper and pleasaunt inuentions, for the recreation and delight of many, and to the hurt and hinderance of none.
Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life.
Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that "drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.
But when she sits to iudge the good and ill, And to discerne betwixt the false and true; She is not guided by the Senses' skill, But doth each thing in her owne mirrour view.
In the middest of all the place was a faire pond, whose shaking cristall was a perfect mirrour to all the other beauties, so that it bare shew of two gardens, one in deed, the other in shadowes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mirrour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
