THE EYES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1350, 16 November 1860, Page 4

THE EYES.

An eye can threaten like the loaded gun, or can insult like hissing 01 kicking ; or in its altered mood, by bean s of kindness can miike the heart dance with joy. The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind. When a thought strikes up, the vision is fixed, and remains looking at a distance; in enumerating names of peisons or countx>es — as France, Spain, Britain, or Germany— the eyes wink at each new name There is an honesty in the eye which the mouth does not participate: in. " The Artist," as Michael Angelo said, " must have his measure in his eye." Eyes are bold as lions— bold, running, leaping. They speak nil languages ; they need no encylopedia to nul in the interpolation of their language; they respect neither rank nor foitune, virtue nor sex, but they go throngh and through you in a moment of time. You can read in the eyes of youi companion, while you talk with him, whether your argument hits, through Ins tongue will not confess it. There is a look by which a man tells you he is going to say a good tiling, & a look which says when he has laid it. Vain and forgotten are all the fine offirs of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye. How many inclinations are a\owed by the eye, though the lips dissemble ! How often does one como from a company in which it may easily happen he hai snid nothing ; that no important remark has been addtessed to him, and yet, in his sympathy with the company, he seems not to h&\e a sense of this fact, for a stieam of light has been flowing into him and out of him through his ejes. As soon as men are off their centeis the eyes show it. There ate eyei, to be sure, that give no more admission into tho man than blue berries. There are liquid and deep wells that a man might fall into; there are asking eyes, and asserting eyes, and piowling eyes, and eyes full ot faith, and some of good and some of sinister ompn. The power of eyes to charm down insanity or beasts, is a power, behind the eyes, that must be a victory achieved in the will befoi'e it can be suggested to the organ ; but the man at peace or unity with himself would move through men and nature, commanding all things by the eye nlone. The reason men do not obey U 3 is, Hint they see tho mud at tho bottom of out eyes. Whoever looked on the hero would consent to will being served j he would be obeyed, — Emonon,