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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hector in the Garden Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. - William Cullen Bryant, Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, What Will He Do With It? (bk. VIII, ch. II) The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40) Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes), Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) In woman's eye the unanswerable tear. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Beppo (st. 45) Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 60) With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . . Bright--and as black and burning as coal. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 94) Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them. - Thomas Carlyle The eye sees what it brings the power to see. - Thomas Carlyle In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. - Thomas Carlyle, Hist. of the French Revolution (vol. I, p. 5), (People's ed.) There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm. - Phoebe Cary, Dove's Eyes This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. - Stephen Charnock What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! - Stephen Charnock The eyes, being in the highest part, have the office of sentinels. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Natura Deorum (bk. II, 56) Where such radiant lights have shone, no wonder if her cheeks be grown sunburnt with lustre of their own. - John Cleaveland The love light in her eye. - Hartley Coleridge, Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (no. CCXVIII) My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream Displaying page 2 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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