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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Sight |
| And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black’s not so black—nor white so very white. Canning—New Morality. | 1 |
| And for to se, and eek for to be seye. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath. Preamble. L. 6,134. | 2 |
| The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. Denham. In Todd’s Johnson. | 3 |
| The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne. Barnaby Googe—Sonnettes. Out of Syght, Out of Mynde. | 4 |
| See and to be seen. Ben Jonson—Epithalamion. St. 3. L. 4. Goldsmith—Children of the World. Letter 71. | 5 |
| And every eye Gaz’d as before some brother of the sky. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 17. Pope’s trans. | 6 |
| For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.) Victor Hugo—Eviradnus. IX. | 7 |
| Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge—In A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts. Pub. by the Religious Tract Society. | 8 |
| Then purg’d with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 414. | 9 |
| He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight. Thomas Percy—Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. | 10 |
| 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. John Trumbull—McFingal. Canto I. L. 67. | 11 |
| Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. Vergil—Æneid. III. 658. | 12 |
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