Herbert, _Jacula
Prudentum_
(1640): Empty vessels
sound most.
sound most.
Robert Herrick
_Mercy and Truth live with thee.
_ 2 Sam.
xv.
20.
38. _To please those babies in your eyes. _ The phrase "babies [_i. e. _,
dolls] in the eyes" is probably only a translation of its metaphor,
involved in the use of the Latin _pupilla_ (a little girl), or "pupil,"
for the central spot of the eye. The metaphor doubtless arose from the
small reflections of the inlooker, which appear in the eyes of the
person gazed at; but we meet with it both intensified, as in the phrase
"to look babies in the eyes" (= to peer amorously), and with its origin
disregarded, as in Herrick, where the "babies" are the pupils, and have
an existence independent of any inlooker.
_Small griefs find tongue. _ Seneca, _Hippol. _ 608:
Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
_Full casks. _ So G.
Herbert, _Jacula Prudentum_ (1640): Empty vessels
sound most.
48. _Thus woe succeeds a woe as wave a wave. _ Horace, Ep. II. ii. 176:
Velut unda supervenit unda. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
38. _To please those babies in your eyes. _ The phrase "babies [_i. e. _,
dolls] in the eyes" is probably only a translation of its metaphor,
involved in the use of the Latin _pupilla_ (a little girl), or "pupil,"
for the central spot of the eye. The metaphor doubtless arose from the
small reflections of the inlooker, which appear in the eyes of the
person gazed at; but we meet with it both intensified, as in the phrase
"to look babies in the eyes" (= to peer amorously), and with its origin
disregarded, as in Herrick, where the "babies" are the pupils, and have
an existence independent of any inlooker.
_Small griefs find tongue. _ Seneca, _Hippol. _ 608:
Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
_Full casks. _ So G.
Herbert, _Jacula Prudentum_ (1640): Empty vessels
sound most.
48. _Thus woe succeeds a woe as wave a wave. _ Horace, Ep. II. ii. 176:
Velut unda supervenit unda. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
