All our good deeds and bad, a perspective
That shows us hell.
Webster, Duchess of Malfi, act iv. sc. 2.
While we look for incorruption in the heavens, we find they are but like the earth, durable in their main bodies, alterable in their parts; whereof, beside comets and new stars, perspectives begin to tell tales; and the spots that wander about the sun, with Phaeton’s favour, would make clear conviction.—Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia.
Look through faith’s perspective with the magnifying end on invisibles (for such is its frame, it lesseneth visibles), and thou wilt see sights not more strange than satisfying.—Whitlock, Zootomia, p. 535.
A tiny mite, which we can scarcely see
Without a perspective.
Oldham, Eighth Satire of M. Boileau.
Pert. This word had once the meaning of brisk, lively, nimble; now it is this with a very distinct subaudition of sauciness and impertinence as well.
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;