Eye to Eyvind

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

eye, n. (371)

    Nat 1.1 3 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    Nat 1.8 20 There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts...
    Nat 1.8 26 The sun illuminates only the eye of the man...
    Nat 1.8 27 The sun...shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
    Nat 1.15 5 ...such [is] the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.15 10 [The beauty of nature] seems partly owing to the eye itself.
    Nat 1.15 10 The eye is the best of artists.
    Nat 1.15 17 ...as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
    Nat 1.16 4 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.16 24 The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
    Nat 1.18 13 To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty...
    Nat 1.40 25 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.45 5 A right action seems to fill the eye...
    Nat 1.45 18 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female;...
    Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.49 26 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    Nat 1.51 27 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Nat 1.73 24 The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
    AmS 1.94 24 ...the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty...
    AmS 1.101 26 [The scholar] is the world's eye.
    AmS 1.104 18 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and search its nature...
    AmS 1.108 6 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    AmS 1.111 17 The meal in the firkin;...the glance of the eye;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    DSA 1.122 3 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    DSA 1.128 20 [Jesus Christ] saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.
    DSA 1.137 25 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    DSA 1.143 23 The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds...
    LE 1.162 20 With inflamed eye...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    LE 1.169 25 ...in the mountains, [men] may believe in the adaptations of the eye.
    LE 1.175 3 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...
    LE 1.175 3 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...their eye fixes on the horizon...
    MN 1.206 25 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye...
    MN 1.207 1 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    MN 1.210 2 ...if [a man's] eye is set on the things to be done...then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.212 16 Ever [the stars] woo and court the eye of every beholder.
    MN 1.213 1 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    MN 1.213 7 ...man...must look at nature with a supernatural eye.
    MN 1.213 26 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]: not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye.
    MN 1.220 2 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    LT 1.275 4 [The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...
    Con 1.297 1 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye;...
    Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air, to draw the eye...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Tran 1.355 15 A saint should be as dear as the apple of the eye.
    YA 1.369 6 ...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye of the surrounding population.
    YA 1.393 2 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.12 22 To the poet...all men [are] divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.
    Hist 2.16 3 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Hist 2.37 15 Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?...
    SR 2.46 25 The eye was placed where one ray should fall...
    SR 2.48 7 [Children's] mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered...
    SR 2.60 1 [Virtue] is it which throws...America into Adams's eye.
    SR 2.66 23 Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes...
    SR 2.67 16 ...man...with reverted eye laments the past...
    SR 2.80 7 ...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
    Comp 2.109 14 ...an eye for an eye;...
    Comp 2.110 9 With his will or against his will [a man] draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word.
    Comp 2.123 25 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye;...
    SL 2.134 19 ...the wonders of which [men of extraordinary success] were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
    SL 2.147 26 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    SL 2.156 23 When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
    SL 2.156 25 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
    SL 2.159 10 [A man's] vice glasses his eye...
    SL 2.161 26 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
    SL 2.162 5 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled...
    Lov1 2.171 2 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
    Lov1 2.175 11 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone;...
    Lov1 2.178 15 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
    Lov1 2.183 10 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...
    Fdsp 2.203 21 ...to most of us society shows not its face and eye...
    Fdsp 2.210 19 That great defying eye, that scornful beauty of [your friend' s] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Fdsp 2.211 2 The hues of the opal...are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Fdsp 2.212 13 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike...you shall never catch a true glance of his eye.
    Prd1 2.223 5 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly, then also has a clear eye for its beauty...
    Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate...the eye and ear;...
    Prd1 2.234 20 The eye of prudence may never shut.
    Prd1 2.236 1 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Prd1 2.237 17 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
    Hsm1 2.259 19 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye...
    Hsm1 2.260 2 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
    Hsm1 2.261 25 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    OS 2.290 5 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone. He does not talk with men with an eye to their opinion.
    Cir 2.301 1 The eye is the first circle;...
    Cir 2.305 25 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...
    Cir 2.305 26 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it, for the eye and it are effects of one cause;...
    Cir 2.311 9 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...
    Cir 2.313 1 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits, and I open my eye on my own possibilities.
    Cir 2.319 14 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing...
    Int 2.325 22 [Mind's] vision is not like the vision of the eye...
    Int 2.331 8 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open whilst we converse...
    Int 2.331 13 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...
    Int 2.336 22 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought, under the eye of judgment...
    Art1 2.351 13 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;...
    Art1 2.356 1 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...fills the eye not less than a lion...
    Art1 2.356 21 Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs.
    Art1 2.357 5 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Art1 2.357 20 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye...
    Pt1 3.5 9 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Pt1 3.18 18 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose, so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye.
    Pt1 3.25 2 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
    Pt1 3.25 8 ...as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Pt1 3.35 21 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.
    Pt1 3.37 15 We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    Exp 3.47 9 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted;...
    Exp 3.76 18 ...it is the eye which makes the horizon...
    Exp 3.76 19 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Chr1 3.87 4 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    Chr1 3.110 20 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead;...
    Mrs1 3.134 2 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory,--they look each other in the eye;...
    Mrs1 3.135 13 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate, before whose eye we have no care to stand, then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Mrs1 3.140 20 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.
    Mrs1 3.149 17 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
    Nat2 3.170 17 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    Nat2 3.172 15 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.182 11 ...according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Nat2 3.186 14 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    Nat2 3.188 24 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye.
    Nat2 3.192 1 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society...
    Nat2 3.192 7 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    NR 3.234 4 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    NR 3.234 15 The eye must not lose sight for a moment of the purpose [of the artist].
    NR 3.234 17 Lively boys write to their ear and eye...
    NR 3.238 2 ...our economical mother...plants an eye wherever a new ray of light can fall...
    NER 3.276 4 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why his eye sinks...in this presence.
    UGM 4.6 14 ...[other than great men] must...keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
    UGM 4.10 13 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good.
    UGM 4.32 10 Some rays...want a finely adapted eye.
    PNR 4.82 6 The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
    PNR 4.83 13 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...soliform eye and his boniform soul;...
    PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable;...
    SwM 4.107 11 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf...
    SwM 4.110 17 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.114 19 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates;...
    SwM 4.117 18 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
    SwM 4.123 21 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg],--his eye never roving...
    SwM 4.129 10 ...I am repelled if you fix your eye on me and demand love.
    SwM 4.134 18 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.
    MoS 4.150 24 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    ShP 4.211 19 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.
    NMW 4.241 7 [Napoleon's troops] performed, under his eye, that which no others could do.
    NMW 4.246 5 ...[Napoleon's] eye, which looked through Europe;...
    GoW 4.265 20 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    GoW 4.272 13 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    GoW 4.275 4 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    ET3 5.37 25 The innumerable details [in England]...all these catching the eye and never allowing it to pause, hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET3 5.42 19 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET5 5.80 12 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts...
    ET5 5.80 27 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim...
    ET6 5.105 23 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye.
    ET8 5.138 21 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception, as the curtain of the eagle's eye.
    ET10 5.166 21 ...a man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
    ET13 5.218 5 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET14 5.245 12 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...
    ET14 5.253 8 The eye of the naturalist must have a scope like nature itself...
    ET15 5.268 2 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET15 5.271 9 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
    ET16 5.284 26 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.286 1 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    F 6.10 17 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger...in the depth of his eye.
    F 6.14 26 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped...eye and claw.
    F 6.23 1 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.
    F 6.25 16 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    F 6.30 11 The glance of [the hero's] eye has the force of sunbeams.
    F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
    F 6.48 15 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
    Pow 6.58 7 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.59 1 [The strong man's] eye makes estates...
    Pow 6.76 24 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...
    Wth 6.116 21 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
    Ctr 6.129 8 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye/...
    Ctr 6.138 2 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Bhr 6.175 1 A keen eye...will see nice gradations of rank...
    Bhr 6.177 21 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun...
    Bhr 6.177 24 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Bhr 6.178 1 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal, probably of the eye, to run away...
    Bhr 6.178 5 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Bhr 6.178 8 An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun...
    Bhr 6.178 12 The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
    Bhr 6.178 21 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
    Bhr 6.180 12 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Bhr 6.180 13 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
    Bhr 6.181 1 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
    Bhr 6.181 8 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
    Bhr 6.181 10 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.
    Bhr 6.181 11 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Bhr 6.181 19 The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Wsp 6.218 9 If your eye is on the eternal, your intellect will grow...
    Wsp 6.222 9 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood...
    Wsp 6.227 16 [As we grow older] We have...an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer;...
    CbW 6.243 2 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Bty 6.279 7 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
    Bty 6.283 17 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither...
    Bty 6.290 21 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    Bty 6.291 12 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye.
    Bty 6.292 7 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Bty 6.292 18 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    Bty 6.293 3 ...a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
    Bty 6.293 14 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Bty 6.299 6 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical; have one eye blue and one gray;...
    Bty 6.305 18 ...the fact is familiar that the fine touch of the eye...plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    Ill 6.311 13 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
    Ill 6.314 22 Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort which the rest of us find in them?
    SS 7.4 23 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Civ 7.20 19 [The Indian] is overpowered by the gaze of the white, and his eye sinks.
    Art2 7.41 8 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    Art2 7.44 4 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance.
    Art2 7.44 8 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    Art2 7.48 19 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...
    Art2 7.56 17 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    Elo1 7.59 9 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Elo1 7.77 14 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another...
    Elo1 7.88 19 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are not always finished to the eye...
    DL 7.109 12 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    DL 7.129 23 ...what educates [the dweller's] eye, or ear, or hand...may well find place [in the household].
    DL 7.130 22 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear ancient...
    WD 7.157 13 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.
    WD 7.157 19 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    WD 7.161 6 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph, that extension of the eye and ear...
    WD 7.171 8 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.171 9 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.172 17 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from birth to death; and where is the old eye that ever saw through the deception?
    WD 7.174 3 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...
    WD 7.182 8 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
    Boks 7.195 15 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Boks 7.204 26 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...
    Clbs 7.234 18 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk. Yes, and we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from ours.
    Clbs 7.234 19 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk. Yes, and we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from ours.
    Cour 7.264 24 The eye is easily daunted;...
    Cour 7.270 26 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Cour 7.278 3 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
    Cour 7.279 18 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of fingers or ear or eye...enriches the community with a new art;...
    Suc 7.293 5 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye...
    Suc 7.298 20 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    Suc 7.300 7 The world is not made up to the eye of figures, that is, only half;...
    Suc 7.303 24 ...[the lover's] eye and ear are telegraphs;...
    Suc 7.308 27 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. The eye shall not see it; the sun shall not shine on it.
    OA 7.315 22 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts, with a Roman eye to the claims of the State;...
    OA 7.322 19 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...
    OA 7.322 20 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that hath seen more than all that went before him...
    PI 8.1 3 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    PI 8.8 11 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
    PI 8.11 10 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    PI 8.16 1 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear...agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.27 21 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    PI 8.27 25 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.28 1 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
    PI 8.33 12 ...We detect at once by [style]...whether [the writer] has one eye apologizing, deprecatory, turned on his reader.
    PI 8.45 18 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye...
    PI 8.52 27 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    PI 8.68 16 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as...to open the eye of the intellect to see farther and better.
    SA 8.80 1 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
    SA 8.80 6 He...who answers you without any supplication in his eye...that man rules.
    SA 8.83 25 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    SA 8.100 24 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    SA 8.103 11 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what...with an eye always to the working of the thing...
    Res 8.146 26 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Comc 8.160 7 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Comc 8.164 6 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Comc 8.170 27 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
    Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur...had a blind eye and a lame foot.
    QO 8.193 3 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    PC 8.213 8 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries, as seen by the eye of Science, but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.219 16 The artist has always the masters in his eye...
    PC 8.220 7 All [the true student's] own work and culture form the eye to see the master.
    PC 8.224 3 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
    PPo 8.243 9 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.244 8 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    PPo 8.257 12 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    PPo 8.257 20 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    PPo 8.260 22 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    PPo 8.261 13 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
    PPo 8.262 20 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/ So that all which delighted the eye in one side,/ The same, point for point, in the other replied./
    Insp 8.288 3 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye...
    Grts 8.305 4 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes.
    Grts 8.312 7 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Grts 8.319 21 ...the eye altering alters all;...
    Grts 8.320 24 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek...
    Imtl 8.342 12 It is a proverb of the world...that goodness itself is an eye;...
    Imtl 8.345 16 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see itself;...
    Dem1 10.10 11 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign. The sign is always there, if only the eye were also;...
    Dem1 10.23 14 Just as [the so-called fortunate man's] eye and hand work exactly together...so the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within his sphere will follow.
    Dem1 10.23 16 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Dem1 10.24 21 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    Edc1 10.130 24 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom...he reports the condition of millions of worlds which his eye never saw.
    Edc1 10.134 27 We do not train the eye and the hand.
    Edc1 10.139 11 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    Edc1 10.141 20 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.153 5 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
    Edc1 10.156 15 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.
    Edc1 10.156 20 ...govern by the eye.
    Edc1 10.157 5 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...
    SovE 10.187 27 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    SovE 10.205 26 We delight in children because of that religious eye which belongs to them;...
    Prch 10.220 18 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism.
    Schr 10.270 9 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting, the eye is so wise, and the hand so clumsy, that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.273 27 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he cannot look a blacksmith in the eye;...
    Schr 10.285 4 Men of talent fill the eye with their pretension.
    Plu 10.299 2 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use, and with a wise man's or a poet's eye.
    Plu 10.299 6 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye...
    Plu 10.300 27 [Plutarch] believes in witchcraft and the evil eye...
    Plu 10.322 20 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids...
    LLNE 10.338 13 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;-the eye of a leaf is all;...
    LLNE 10.339 20 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed...
    CSC 10.376 20 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    EzRy 10.393 5 [Ezra Ripley] kept his eye on the horizon...
    SlHr 10.448 27 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Thor 10.461 22 [Thoreau] could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye;...
    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...
    Thor 10.474 15 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music.
    Thor 10.479 19 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    LS 11.23 10 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    HDC 11.76 27 ...the eye of affection and veneration follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].
    EWI 11.147 18 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
    FSLC 11.214 6 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.216 2 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.221 15 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the ear...
    TPar 11.286 21 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations...
    SMC 11.352 13 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...kept its eye wide open.
    PLT 12.32 25 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    PLT 12.37 17 ...Perception is the armed eye.
    PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
    II 12.66 21 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.
    II 12.67 19 The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the tongue.
    II 12.67 23 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
    II 12.68 8 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    Mem 12.107 24 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was, a mere sensuous object before the eye or ear, but a reminder of its law...
    CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...an eye for Nature, good humor, vast curiosity...
    CL 12.143 1 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    CL 12.143 24 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
    CL 12.157 19 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.
    CL 12.158 15 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
    CL 12.160 12 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.
    CW 12.176 2 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp. One is an artist, that is, who has an eye for beauty.
    CW 12.176 7 In walking with Allston, you shall see what was never before shown to the eye of man.
    Bost 12.193 4 The common eye cannot tell what the bird will be, from the egg...
    MAng1 12.215 20 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being addressed for the most part to the eye;...
    MAng1 12.219 16 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests.
    MAng1 12.219 17 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface...
    MAng1 12.220 10 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.
    MAng1 12.228 23 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.
    MAng1 12.228 24 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.
    MAng1 12.233 24 [Michelangelo] was conscious in his efforts of higher aims than to address the eye.
    MAng1 12.233 25 [Michelangelo] sought, through the eye, to reach the soul.
    MAng1 12.243 5 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened, which no profane eye and no indolent eye can behold...
    Milt1 12.257 16 [Milton's] eye was quick...
    Milt1 12.267 9 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./
    MLit 12.312 27 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called subjectiveness, as the eye is withdrawn from the object and fixed on the subject or mind.
    MLit 12.317 6 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for form, color, botany...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    MLit 12.326 26 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life...
    MLit 12.330 7 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
    MLit 12.332 4 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance, as we might relate of a man that he had or had not...an eye for colors...
    MLit 12.334 3 [The Doctrine of the Life of Man] is that which tunes the tongue and fires the eye...
    Pray 12.354 9 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    Pray 12.355 26 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance...brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Pray 12.356 12 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with the eye of my soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.
    EurB 12.366 1 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
    EurB 12.374 5 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.
    PPr 12.380 6 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
    PPr 12.388 16 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
    PPr 12.388 18 ...[Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.
    Trag 12.405 8 I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.
    Trag 12.410 11 Tragedy is in the eye of the observer...
    Trag 12.414 16 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

eyeball, n. (2)

    Nat 1.10 9 I become a transparent eyeball;...
    Res 8.146 8 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.

eye-beam, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.178 7 ...[a farmer's] eye-beam is like the stroke of a staff.

eye-beams, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.191 11 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams.
    F 6.19 20 ...[the drowning men] had a right to their eye-beams, and all the rest was Fate.
    Suc 7.303 10 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across assemblies...
    EdAd 11.382 6 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/ And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of the Same./

eyebrow, n. (2)

    Nat 1.25 19 ...supercilious [means] the raising of the eyebrow.
    ACri 12.297 19 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow.

eyebrows, n. (2)

    ET16 5.275 1 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    PPo 8.242 26 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

eye-glass, n. (1)

    PLT 12.63 15 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.

eyelash, n. (2)

    ShP 4.213 23 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain;...
    PPo 8.243 2 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

eyelashes, n. (1)

    PPo 8.260 12 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/

eyelids, n. (2)

    Insp 8.285 30 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    Chr2 10.89 4 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./

eyen, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 6 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./

eyes, n. (410)

    Nat 1.3 5 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.
    Nat 1.10 5 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life...no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
    Nat 1.35 15 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.
    Nat 1.51 10 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
    Nat 1.53 19 Take those lips away/.../And those eyes, the break of day/...
    Nat 1.68 27 [Man's] eyes dismount the highest star/...
    Nat 1.75 24 So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.
    AmS 1.90 17 ...the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead...
    AmS 1.108 9 ...we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
    AmS 1.109 19 ...we are lined with eyes;...
    DSA 1.119 12 The cool night...prepares [man's] eyes again for the crimson dawn.
    DSA 1.146 10 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money...are not bandages over your eyes...
    LE 1.155 19 Eyes is [the scholar] to the blind;...
    LE 1.176 12 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord.
    MN 1.191 20 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    MN 1.193 16 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance, as the eyes of men open to their capabilities.
    MN 1.197 21 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    MN 1.198 14 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.
    MN 1.213 1 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    MN 1.213 3 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him...
    MN 1.217 18 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...
    MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ... This would be great action, which always opens the eyes of men.
    MR 1.239 14 ...instead of...those piercing and learned eyes...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.242 1 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries, which declared that there were two pairs of eyes in man...
    LT 1.262 15 Thoughts...look with eyes at me...
    LT 1.264 4 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts...
    LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with roving eyes, and an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.275 6 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes...
    LT 1.290 2 I read [the Moral Sentiment] in glad and in weeping eyes;...
    Con 1.297 27 ...[conservatism] will not open its eyes to see a better fact.
    Hist 2.18 26 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
    Hist 2.23 6 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.
    Hist 2.24 16 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    Hist 2.40 26 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes.
    SR 2.55 4 ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief...
    SR 2.56 25 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    SR 2.59 14 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.63 10 The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations.
    SR 2.78 22 ...[the self-helping man]...all eyes follow with desire.
    SR 2.88 24 ...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    Comp 2.101 21 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.111 17 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him...[my neighbor' s] eyes no longer seek mine;...
    Comp 2.126 5 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
    SL 2.140 10 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice...of the eyes...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.142 14 [A man] must find in [his vocation] an outlet for his character, so that he may justify his work to their eyes.
    SL 2.146 23 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
    SL 2.147 1 No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes is the object.
    SL 2.147 6 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face...
    SL 2.149 8 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
    SL 2.151 15 Nothing is more deeply punished than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.
    SL 2.159 6 There is confession in the glances of our eyes...
    Lov1 2.173 5 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...
    Lov1 2.175 25 Thou are not gone being gone, where'er thou art,/ Thou leav' st in him thy watchful eyes,.../
    Lov1 2.184 13 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...with eyes so full of mutual intelligence, of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.205 3 I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence.
    Prd1 2.226 25 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle; if eyes, measure and discriminate;...
    Prd1 2.228 10 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    Prd1 2.229 19 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...and fastening the eyes on the spot where they should look.
    Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    OS 2.279 14 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    OS 2.289 4 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things which it hath made.
    Cir 2.311 19 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes.
    Cir 2.319 22 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...
    Int 2.333 27 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Int 2.337 11 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly...
    Art1 2.351 15 ...the same power which sees through [the painter's] eyes is seen in that spectacle [of nature];...
    Art1 2.354 5 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
    Art1 2.358 5 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
    Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of beating hearts, and meeting eyes;...
    Art1 2.361 3 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.
    Art1 2.361 6 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Art1 2.362 20 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.
    Art1 2.364 12 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Pt1 3.1 2 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.20 14 The poet...puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object.
    Pt1 3.20 18 ...the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth...
    Pt1 3.20 27 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.29 9 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Pt1 3.34 23 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen...
    Pt1 3.36 22 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes.
    Pt1 3.38 4 ...America is a poem in our eyes;...
    Exp 3.45 13 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes...
    Exp 3.50 11 Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
    Exp 3.80 13 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    Chr1 3.90 18 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.
    Chr1 3.94 12 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...
    Chr1 3.105 2 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature.
    Chr1 3.106 22 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Chr1 3.114 12 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind.
    Chr1 3.115 17 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    Mrs1 3.128 26 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors with keener eyes and stronger frames.
    Mrs1 3.134 5 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward...
    Mrs1 3.135 24 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.151 3 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see?
    Nat2 3.171 8 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.171 16 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon...
    Nat2 3.173 6 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
    Nat2 3.182 13 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
    Nat2 3.188 25 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye. Will they not burn his eyes?
    Pol1 3.216 19 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes.
    Pol1 3.218 4 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not smooth our own brow...
    Pol1 3.218 17 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but...to vindicate their manhood in our eyes.
    NR 3.225 20 We have such exorbitant eyes that on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve...
    NER 3.257 17 We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms.
    NER 3.282 4 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him.
    NER 3.284 19 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter, and he will have demonstrated his insufficiency to all men's eyes.
    NER 3.285 13 It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them;...
    UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
    UGM 4.6 17 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    UGM 4.15 16 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes!
    UGM 4.17 7 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    UGM 4.18 3 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    UGM 4.18 26 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages;...
    UGM 4.21 27 I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
    UGM 4.25 14 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
    PPh 4.47 1 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PPh 4.61 22 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...
    PPh 4.65 8 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes.
    PPh 4.65 23 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
    PPh 4.68 11 Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence. We can define but a little way; but here is a fact...which to shut our eyes upon is suicide.
    PNR 4.89 23 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    SwM 4.97 8 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... Myesis, the closing of the eyes...
    SwM 4.136 5 My learning is such as God gave me...in the delight and study of my eyes...
    SwM 4.136 22 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.146 1 If the glory was too bright for [Swedenborg's] eyes to bear... the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    MoS 4.171 1 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...
    ShP 4.190 11 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way...
    ShP 4.202 8 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned;...
    NMW 4.238 6 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry.
    NMW 4.242 17 ...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and talent.
    NMW 4.245 9 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
    GoW 4.263 5 In [the writer's] eyes, a man is the faculty of reporting...
    GoW 4.269 15 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
    GoW 4.274 26 Eyes are better on the whole than telescopes or microscopes.
    GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
    ET1 5.18 18 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.
    ET1 5.22 5 [Wordsworth's] eyes are much inflamed.
    ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to read and to write.
    ET4 5.56 7 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears.
    ET4 5.67 5 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    ET5 5.74 19 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to supplant his own.
    ET6 5.104 21 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the trunk.
    ET6 5.105 2 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his own affair and does not think of them.
    ET6 5.105 18 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf; his eyes never wander from his table and newspaper.
    ET7 5.124 13 ...[Englishmen's] eyes seem to be set at the bottom of a tunnel...
    ET11 5.198 13 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    ET13 5.223 23 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.
    ET13 5.225 10 The new age...reads the Scriptures with new eyes.
    ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    ET13 5.229 24 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted, and the eyes of all turned upon me with a frightful squint;...
    ET13 5.230 6 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    ET14 5.233 21 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    ET14 5.248 23 Coleridge...with eyes looking before and after to the highest bards and sages...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET16 5.278 23 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen hundred years.
    ET19 5.310 17 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can, and hears it.
    F 6.9 22 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
    F 6.10 8 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes...
    F 6.25 23 If the light come to our eyes, we see; else not.
    F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light;...
    F 6.40 24 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Pow 6.59 14 Each reads his fate in the other's eyes.
    Pow 6.61 16 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
    Wth 6.94 27 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.121 13 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open.
    Wth 6.122 23 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once, his eyes dim with tears of joy, to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Ctr 6.138 11 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
    Ctr 6.144 12 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...
    Bhr 6.167 10 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./ He looketh seldom in their face,/ His eyes explore the ground/...
    Bhr 6.177 13 The face and eyes reveal what the spirit is doing...
    Bhr 6.177 15 The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul...
    Bhr 6.177 19 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Bhr 6.178 13 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Bhr 6.178 16 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries...the eyes wink at each new name.
    Bhr 6.178 18 There is no nicety of learning sought by the mind which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
    Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions...
    Bhr 6.179 14 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self...
    Bhr 6.179 16 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie...
    Bhr 6.179 26 The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues...
    Bhr 6.180 2 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    Bhr 6.180 5 If the man is off his centre, his eyes show it.
    Bhr 6.180 6 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him...
    Bhr 6.180 20 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact, such a stream of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes.
    Bhr 6.180 20 There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
    Bhr 6.181 4 There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, prowling eyes;...
    Bhr 6.181 5 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate...
    Bhr 6.185 17 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.
    Wsp 6.199 17 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own,/ Yet greeted in another's eyes,/ Disconcerts with glad surprise./
    Wsp 6.202 26 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes...
    Wsp 6.219 25 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them...
    Wsp 6.221 17 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.231 9 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages...is almost equally low.
    Wsp 6.231 12 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
    Wsp 6.237 27 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...
    Bty 6.284 3 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth...
    Bty 6.288 6 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too, and peep with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
    Bty 6.289 15 ...the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes.
    Bty 6.289 22 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    Bty 6.297 23 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Bty 6.297 24 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Ill 6.312 18 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air and actions of people whom he admires, and is raised in his own eyes.
    Ill 6.312 24 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    Ill 6.314 5 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Ill 6.321 20 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...
    Ill 6.321 24 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes.
    Civ 7.17 3 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers/ Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts./
    Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.54 8 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...
    Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...fixing his eyes on the ground...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.76 27 You are safe...in the city...under the eyes of a hundred thousand people.
    Elo1 7.89 13 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes.
    Elo1 7.98 24 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...bead eyes...
    DL 7.126 25 ...beauty is never quite absent from our eyes.
    DL 7.132 11 Will not man one day open his eyes and see how dear he is to the soul of Nature...
    Farm 7.136 3 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    Farm 7.137 18 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    WD 7.171 19 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.174 2 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Boks 7.192 26 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...whose eyes sweep the whole horizon of learning.
    Boks 7.203 8 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...daemons with fulgid eyes...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.203 10 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.210 3 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop. All eyes were bent on the bidders.
    Boks 7.216 8 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    Boks 7.220 5 ...there are as good eyes and ears now in the planet as ever were.
    Clbs 7.244 21 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Cour 7.254 16 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Cour 7.255 24 ...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct... is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Cour 7.257 4 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo, before yet the eyes are open, bites fiercely;...
    Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    Cour 7.258 19 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;...
    Cour 7.258 20 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us;...
    Cour 7.258 22 Cowardice...shuts the eyes of the mind...
    Cour 7.273 14 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail, or as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed the sun.
    Suc 7.283 9 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.
    Suc 7.287 17 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    Suc 7.297 17 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because his eyes are good...
    Suc 7.299 7 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that his eyes opened as he grew older...
    Suc 7.302 14 This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a compliment to the human race...
    Suc 7.305 14 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
    OA 7.317 5 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.318 12 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    OA 7.321 22 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...
    OA 7.322 21 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that...hath opened the eyes of all that shall come after him;...
    PI 8.10 5 Passion adds eyes;...
    PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.28 26 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    PI 8.33 9 Style betrays you, as your eyes do.
    PI 8.55 11 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes/...
    PI 8.67 17 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to the face of Nature...
    PI 8.71 13 You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes;...
    SA 8.89 3 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime; we say, This is only for the eyes.
    SA 8.96 10 Let our eyes not look away, but meet.
    SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    SA 8.103 16 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he...opened the eyes of the person he talked with without contradicting him.
    SA 8.104 11 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    Elo2 8.109 12 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    Elo2 8.113 1 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    Res 8.138 2 A low, hopeless spirit puts out the eyes;...
    Res 8.144 10 The world belongs to the energetic man. His will gives him new eyes.
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Res 8.146 16 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    Res 8.147 14 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes...
    Comc 8.160 9 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Comc 8.167 14 Women [Camper says], the prettiest in society, and those whom I find less comely, they are all either narwhales or porpoises to my eyes.
    Comc 8.167 22 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes.
    QO 8.177 23 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...
    QO 8.183 9 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.194 14 We read the quotation with [the writer's] eyes, and find a new and fervent sense;...
    PC 8.214 17 [The Middle Ages] are seen to be...the eyes with which we see.
    PPo 8.260 18 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Insp 8.272 20 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance, from my own eyes or from others like mine.
    Insp 8.289 1 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem. I have more womanly eyes.
    Insp 8.293 18 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind.
    Grts 8.314 11 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes...
    Imtl 8.332 11 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They looked in each other's eyes silently...
    Imtl 8.345 23 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Dem1 10.10 9 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.
    Dem1 10.13 15 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know, such as my eyes and ears daily show me...
    Dem1 10.16 11 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see.
    Dem1 10.22 19 We may make great eyes if we like, and say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Dem1 10.24 23 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    Aris 10.43 24 ...when the well-mixed man is born, with eyes not too dull nor too good...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    PerF 10.80 5 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    PerF 10.82 1 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes.
    Chr2 10.101 6 [The man of profound moral sentiment's] actions are poetic and miraculous in [men's] eyes.
    Chr2 10.108 8 ...the new age cannot see with the eyes of the last.
    Chr2 10.109 14 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.138 13 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    Supl 10.166 19 I am very much indebted to my eyes...
    SovE 10.185 23 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    SovE 10.202 10 ...in trying to dispel the illusions of his neighbor, [a man] opens his own eyes.
    SovE 10.212 11 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.
    SovE 10.212 23 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.
    Prch 10.226 26 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    Prch 10.237 10 There are two pairs of eyes in man;...
    Prch 10.237 15 The lower eyes see only surfaces and effects...
    Prch 10.237 16 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    MoL 10.244 14 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...heaven walked on earth, and Earth could see with eyes the Paradise and the Inferno.
    MoL 10.245 15 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury...have turned the eyes downward to the earth...
    Schr 10.268 23 There is confession in [the practical men's] eyes...
    Schr 10.273 19 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
    Plu 10.298 4 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in...his sharp, objective eyes.
    Plu 10.300 23 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    Plu 10.316 9 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    LLNE 10.334 7 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    LLNE 10.334 25 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new perception of Grecian beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.
    MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    MMEm 10.410 7 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.
    MMEm 10.432 13 ...the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes...
    Thor 10.461 20 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.465 7 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.473 18 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These...were important in [Thoreau's] eyes.
    Thor 10.476 4 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    Thor 10.477 5 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.481 3 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes...
    Thor 10.483 6 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.
    GSt 10.501 11 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    GSt 10.506 25 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.7 7 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes.
    LS 11.7 14 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.21 26 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    HDC 11.38 27 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    LVB 11.95 10 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
    EWI 11.104 15 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    EWI 11.111 13 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females;...
    EWI 11.120 13 The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
    EWI 11.126 25 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Britain.
    EWI 11.142 2 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
    War 11.161 15 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it...climbs the zenith of all eyes.
    FSLC 11.204 27 All the drops of [Webster's] his blood have eyes that look downward.
    FSLN 11.215 5 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    FSLN 11.221 10 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people, who went to satisfy their eyes...
    FSLN 11.222 17 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath, when his eyes became lamps, was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    FSLN 11.237 22 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes...
    FSLN 11.244 14 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.
    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...
    AsSu 11.250 8 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    AKan 11.262 19 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
    JBB 11.270 8 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.
    JBB 11.271 6 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges...do not, like John Brown, use their eyes to see the fact behind the forms.
    ACiv 11.302 15 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    ACiv 11.303 12 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged. They can be read by... eyes in the last peril.
    EPro 11.314 23 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    EPro 11.322 27 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.
    HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    HCom 11.341 11 I see thankfully those that are here, but dim eyes in vain explore for some who are not.
    SMC 11.353 18 [War] opens the eyes wider.
    SMC 11.375 23 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
    EdAd 11.382 7 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    EdAd 11.384 19 Keep our eyes as long as we can on this picture [of America], we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this power and population...
    EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    Koss 11.397 17 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    Wom 11.403 8 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
    RBur 11.440 17 They that looked into [Burns's] eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily.
    Humb 11.456 5 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes...
    FRO2 11.490 15 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    FRep 11.537 2 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    FRep 11.537 20 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms; farther pierce his eyes;...than the Englishman's...
    FRep 11.539 6 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of men.
    PLT 12.9 22 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet, or with his voice, eyes, ears...the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.11 2 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands, glass guards over the eyes...are no defence against this virus...
    PLT 12.12 18 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see;...
    PLT 12.12 19 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see;...
    PLT 12.32 10 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    PLT 12.39 8 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.51 10 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    II 12.83 4 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    II 12.84 16 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene...
    II 12.86 16 The old Herschel must...defend his eyes for nocturnal use.
    II 12.89 4 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to pure eyes...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.91 16 ...a fact that falls under my eyes...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.93 15 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold...
    Mem 12.99 7 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
    CL 12.142 22 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    CL 12.142 24 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...
    CL 12.143 12 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...
    CL 12.148 10 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.
    CL 12.155 1 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience...of men with good eyes and susceptible organizations.
    CL 12.158 4 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CW 12.175 9 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.175 15 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    CW 12.176 4 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes;...
    Bost 12.191 2 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.
    Bost 12.201 27 What is very conspicuous is the saucy independence which shines in all [the Massachusetts colonists'] eyes.
    MAng1 12.220 19 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MAng1 12.234 16 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    Milt1 12.265 13 [Milton's native honor] always sparkles in his eyes.
    Milt1 12.269 6 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.
    ACri 12.299 1 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...
    MLit 12.321 20 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it hath made.
    MLit 12.322 24 ...a thousand men seemed to look through [Goethe's] eyes.
    MLit 12.328 8 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
    MLit 12.334 15 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
    MLit 12.334 17 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not? Have they ceased to see other eyes?
    MLit 12.335 14 ...the august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.
    WSL 12.338 2 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.
    WSL 12.346 18 [Landor] loves...Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Virgil, yet with open eyes.
    Pray 12.352 6 When my long-attached friend comes to me...I rejoice to pass my eyes over his countenance;...
    PPr 12.379 12 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...
    PPr 12.383 11 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect harmony to all eyes;...
    PPr 12.385 8 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
    Let 12.398 25 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be hid from the reproachful eyes of their countrymen...
    Trag 12.412 5 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.

eyesight, n. (1)

    Prch 10.219 25 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.

eye-sockets, n. (1)

    Hist 2.24 15 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...

eye-sparkles, n. (1)

    Boks 7.219 20 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women.

eye-teeth, n. (1)

    Civ 7.20 9 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth...is made by tribes.

eye-water, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 21 ...love is not a hood, but an eye-water.

eye-witness, n. (2)

    LS 11.6 6 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark, who though not an eye-witness, relates the other facts.
    LS 11.14 23 ...the import of [St. Paul's] expression is that he had received the story [of the Last Supper] of an eye-witness such as we also possess.

Eylau, Prussia, n. (1)

    Pow 6.72 7 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.

Eyre, Jane [Charlotte Bron (1)

    Boks 7.215 18 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central question was answered in some sort?

Eystein [Sturluson, Heimskr (1)

    ET4 5.60 4 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...

Eyvind, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.205 21 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Wsp 6.205 24 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.

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