text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "[...] Of the Beauty of the Eye I shall say little, leaving that to Poets and Orators; that is a very pleasant and lovely Object to behold, if we consider the Figure, Color, and Splendor of it, is the least that I can say. The Soul as it is more immediately and strongly moved and affected by this part than any other; so doth it manifest all its Passions and Perturbations by this. As the Eyes are the Windows to let in the Species of all exterior Objects into the dark Cels of the Brain, for the information of the Soul; so are they flaming Torches to reveal to those abroad how the Soul within is moved or affected. These Representations made by the impressions of external Objects upon the Eye are the most clear, lively and distinct of any others. [...]
(170)",2014-06-22 03:12:24 UTC,"""As the Eyes are the Windows to let in the Species of all exterior Objects into the dark Cels of the Brain, for the information of the Soul; so are they flaming Torches to reveal to those abroad how the Soul within is moved or affected.""",2014-06-22 03:12:24 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"",Reading (in the British Library),24086,7945