Si vous les voulez aimer, ce sera, ma foi, pour leurs beaux yeux.
If you wish to love, it shall be, by my faith, for their beautiful eyes.
And violets, transform'd to eyes,
Inshrined a soul within their blue.
Eyes of most unholy blue!
Those eyes, whose light seem'd rather given
To be ador'd than to adore—
Such eyes as may have looked from heaven,
But ne'er were raised to it before!
And the world's so rich in resplendent eyes,
'Twere a pity to limi t, one's love to a pair.
All German cities are blind, Nurnberg alone sees with one eye.
Frederick Nuchter—Albrecht Durer. P. 8.
English Trans, by Lucy D. Williams.
(Given as a saying in Venice.)
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Would I were heaven that I might behold thee with many eyes.
Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decern.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of what they have heard; those who see, know beyond mistake.
Plautus—Truculentus. II. 6. 8.
Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly.
Say, what the use, were finer optics giv'n,
T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n?
Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs. XVII. 24.
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Than those that mock the hyacinthine bell.
J. H. Reynolds—Sonnet.
Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye;
'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,
That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!
As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 10.
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Did make offence his eye did heal it up.
As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 116.
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 57.
The image of a wicked heinous fault
Lives in his eye: that close aspect of his
Does show the mood of a much troubled breast.
King John. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 71.
You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once. * * * those happy smilets.
That play'd on her ripe Up, seem'd not to know
What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 19.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Love's Labour's Lost. Act rV. Sc. 3. L. 312.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 334.
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I did receive fair speechless messages.
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 163.
I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 58.
I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
85.
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 1.
L. 51.
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath'd their light;
And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.
Rape of Lucrece. L. 397.
Her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright,
That birds would sing and think it were not
night.
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces."
Sonnet XVII.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
And say what thou seest yond.
Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 407.
