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" From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire." • '* •*••••• " For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? Learning... "
The Romance of Private Life - Page 66
by Sarah Harriet Burney - 1839
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Odes of Anacreon, Volume 1

Anacreon - 1804 - 194 pages
...of female charms to the cold illumination of wisdom and prudence ; and to think thM women's eyes are the books, the academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. She gave thee beauty — shaft cf cjes, That every shaft of -war outfies!} Thus Achilles Tatius : xoAXot...
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Odes of Anacreon, tr. into Engl. verse, with notes. By T. Moore, Volume 1

Anacreon - 1820 - 196 pages
...of female charms to the cold illumination of wisdom and pradence; and to think that women's eyes are the books, the academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. She gave thee beauty— shaft ij/° eyes, That every shaft of war outflies!] Thus Achilles Tat ins:...
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The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads ..., Volume 7

Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...female charms to the cold illumination of wisdom and prudence ; and to think that women's eyes are the books, the academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. She gave thee beauty — shaft nf eyes, That every shaft of war outflies ! ] Tlms Achilles Tatius :...
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The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both ...

Anacreon, John Broderick Roche - 1827 - 330 pages
...female charms to the cold illumination of wisdom and prudence; and to think that women's eyes are " the books, the Academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire."— (M.) The Greek word, ^pot^jfia, generally signifies prudence ; and so Stephens has translated it :...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...book-lore and eye-language, declares — From women's eye this doctrire I derive : They are the ground, the. books, the academies, From whence doth spring...Promethean fire. For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? « How finely is the moral expression of the eye suggested by...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 456 pages
...book-lore and eye-language, declares — From women's eye this doctrine I derive : They are the ground, the books, the academies, From whence doth spring...Promethean fire. For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? How finely is the moral expression of the eye suggested by the...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...female charms to the cold illumination of wisdom and prudence ; and to think that women's eyes aro the books, the academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. 5 She gave thee beauty — mightier far Than all the pomp and power of war.] Thus Achilles Tatius:...
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The Optimist

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 260 pages
...book-lore and eye-language, declares — " From woman's eye this doctrine I derive : They arc the ground, the books, the academies, From whence doth spring...Promethean fire. For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ?" How finely is the moral expression of the eye suggested by...
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The Shakespeare's cyclopædia; or, A classified and elucidated ..., Part 1

James Hamilton Fennell - 1862 - 60 pages
...shine. ******* From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. ******* For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are, our...
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Cosas de España: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as They are, Volume 2

Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - 1866 - 358 pages
...Without the beanty of a woman's face ? From woman's eyes the doctrine I rece1ve : They are the ground, the books, the academies, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire." Loce'i Labour Loft, ". . . Postquam SB lumine puro Implevit, stellasque vagas miratur et astra Fixa...
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