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{{Hoyt quote | num = 6 | text = Extremes meet. Mercier—Tableaux de Paris. Vol. IV. Title of Ch. 348. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Emerson) | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 7 | text = And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. II. 599. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Campbell}}) | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 8 | text = He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI. | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 9 | text = Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 385. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cleobulus}}) | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 10 | text = Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essays. | place = Ep. III. L. 161. | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco. No one tries extreme remedies at first. Seneca—Agamemnon. 153. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 51. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 37. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who can be patient in such extremes? Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 215. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 133. O brother, speak with possibilities, And do not break into these deep extremes. Titus Andronicus. Act III. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

 {{Hoyt topic|Eyes}}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning. T. B. AldrichA gray eye is a sly eye, | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Arid roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,— Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one. W. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry. Schaffy on Eyes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Drawing Room. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The Loyal Subject. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Donne, Herrick, Sidney}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. F. W. BouRDrLLON—Light. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Sylvester}}, also {{sc|Bourdillon}} under {{sc|Night}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. E. B. Browning—Hector in the Garden. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. Bryant—Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. Bulwer-Lytton—What Will He Do With Itt Bk.VIII. Ch. n. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. | author = Burton—Anat. of Melancholy. Ed. 6. P. 40. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. | place = Canto I. St. 60. | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}