Painful and loathsome," &c.

That exquisite stanza in the Third Canto of Childe Harold, "Even as a broken mirror," &c., has been often admired. In Carew's poem, The Spark, I find the following lines, which contain similar image:

"And as a looking-glass, from the aspect,

Whilst it is whole, doth but one face reflect,

But being crack'd, or broken, there are shown

Many half faces, which at first were one;

So Love," &c.

To the coincidences which have been already pointed out regarding that exquisite line in the Bride of Abydos:

"The mind, the music breathing from her face,"