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14 Quotes for 'Sight' in the Database.
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And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
Author: George Canning
Source: New Morality
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And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 6,134), The Wife of Bath's Tale
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The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: in Todd's "Johnson"
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The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde,
The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.
Author: Barnaby Googe
Source: Sonnettes--Out of Syght, Out of Mynde
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And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 17), (Pope's translation)
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: Eviradnus (IX)
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See and to be seen.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Epithalamion (st. 3, l. 4)
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Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Author: Rev. Frederick Langbridge
Source: in "A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts" published by the Religious Tract Society
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Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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We see things not as they are but as we are.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
- Thomas Percy,
Author: Thomas Percy
Source: Reliques of Ancient Poetry--Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
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For any man with half an eye,
What stands before him may espy;
But optics sharp it needs I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
Author: John Trumbull
Source: McFingal (canto I, l. 67)
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A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (III, 658)
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