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With eyes that look'd into the very soul—
* * * * * *
Bright—and as black and burning as a coal.

Byron—Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 94.

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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means
of seeing.

 Carlyle—Hist, of the French Revolution. Vol.

I. P. 5. People's ed. Heroes and HeroWorship, The Hero as Poet; Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. VI; Review of Vemhagen von Ense's Memoirs, P. 241. Same idea in

Goethe's Zahme Xeniem. III.

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There are eyes half defiant,
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm.

Phebe Cary—Dove's Eyes.

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Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

Cicero—De Nat. Deorum. Bk. II. 56.

(See also Du Bartas)

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The love light in her eye.

Hartley Coleridge—in Golden Treasury of Songs and lyrics. No. CCXVIII

(See also Dufferin)

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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

Coleridge—A Day-Dream.

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In the twinkling of an eye.

I Corinthians XV. 52. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 2.

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Eyes, that displaces
The neighbor diamond, and out-faces
That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.

Richard Crashaw—Wishes. To his (Supposed) Mistress.

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Not in mine eyes alone is Paradise.

Dante—Paradise XVIII. 21.

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Parean Pocchiaje anella senza gemme.

Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.

Dante—Purgatorio. XXIII. 31.

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He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy. XXXII. 10.

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With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.

Dickens—Martin Chuzzlewit Ch. VIII.

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And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.

Donne—The Ecstacy

(See also Beaumont)

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My life lies in those eyes which have me slain.

Drummond—Sonnet XXIX L. 14.

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These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.

Du Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes. First Week. Sixth Day.

(See also Cicero)

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The love light in your eye.

Lady Dufferin—Irish Emigrant.

(See also Colerldge)

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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

George Eliot—The Mill on the Floss Bk. V. Ch. XIV.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.

Emerson—Conduct of Life. Behavior

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Eyes are bold as lions,—roving, running,
leaping, here and there, far and near. They
speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave
of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor
riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue,
nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go
through and through you in a moment of time.
What inundation of life and thought is discharged
from one soul into another through them!

Emerson—Conduct of Life Behavior

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Scitum est inter caecos luscum requare posse.

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Erasmus—Adagia, Dignitas el Excellentia et Inequalitas, sub-division, Excel, et Ineq. (about 1500) Proverbs collected by Michael Apostolios, Cent. VII. 31. Latin given as: Cæcorum in patria luscus rex imperat omnis. Taken from the Greek. See Chiliades—Adagiorum, fifth centuria, third Chilias No. 96. Earliest use probably in G. Fullenius—Comedye of Acolastus, trans. by John Palsgrave from the Latin. (1540) Quoted by Edmund Campion—Rationes Decom. (1581) Carlyle—Frederick the Great. Bk. 4. Ch. II. Quoted as: Beati monoculi in regione csecorum. Blessed are the one-eyed in the country of the blind. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. Also in Miscellanæ. Pt. II. Fourth Ed. P. 342. Juvenal—Satire X. 227, gives it as: Ambes Perdidit ille oculus et luscis invidet.

(See also Burton, Marvel, Nuchter, Skelton)

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To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

Henry Fielding—The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Act I. Sc. 3.

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Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre ame.

Eyes so transparent,
That through them one sees the soul.

Theophile Gautier—The Two Beautiful Eyes

(See also Meredith)