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Sight: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black;-nor white so very white.— CANNING — New Morality.

And for to se, and eek for to be seye.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath. Preamble. L. 10,594.

The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.— BARNABY GOOGE — Sonnettes. Out of

Syght, Out of Mynde. And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 17.

Pope's trans. 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.

Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 414.