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 248 EYES

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak but as the constitution is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. Speaker Lenthal to Charles I. As quoted EYES by Wendell Phtliips—Under the Flag. Boston, April 21, 1861. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lincoln) Der Blick des Forschers fand Nicht selten mebr, als er zu finden wunschte. The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than he wished to find. Lessing—Nathan der Weise. II. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. Lincoln to the South Carolina Commissioners. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lenthal}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom, Shine like jewels in a shroud. | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The flash of his keen, black eyes Forerunning the thunder. | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light,—are luminous, but not sparkling. | author = Longfellow | work = Hyperion. Bk. III. Ch. IV. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! | author = Longfellow | work = Masque of Pandora. Pt. I. Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light. | author = Longfellow | work = Spirit of Poetry. L. 45. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde. LYLY—Euphves and his England. P. 289. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The light of the body is the eye. Matthew. VI. 22. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. Geo. MacDonald—Song in "At the Back of the North Wind." Ch. XXXIII. Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. | author = Owen Meredith | cog = (Lord Lytton) | work = Lucile. | place = Pt. II. Canto II. St. 3. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gautter}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Andrew Marvel—Description of Holland. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. | author = Milton | work = Il Penseroso. L. 39. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Ovid}} under {{sc|God}})

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence. | author = Milton | work = L'Allegro. L. 121. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}