euphrasy

To find the proscribed author of the _Patriarcha_ purging with "euphrasy and rue" the eyes of the dispensers of justice, and shouldering the crowd to obtain for reason a fair and impartial hearing, is indeed like meeting with Saul among the prophets.

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) 2658Then purg’d with euphrasy and rue

Quotations 1919

Perhaps to “the visual nerve purged with euphrasy and rue” the spectacle of the human soul successfully resisting supernatural temptation would be more impressive than the material sublimities of

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

In these delightful moments, released from the burden of her tyrant malady, her eyes seem to have been touched with the herb euphrasy, and she has the gift, denied to the rest of her generation, of seeing nature and describing what she sees.

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

On the next morning any one whose eyes were purged with euphrasy and rue might have observed an owl and a fairy queen fluttering in the smoky air above Burlington House.

'That Very Mab' Andrew Lang 1878

Perhaps to "the visual nerve purged with euphrasy and rue" the spectacle of the human soul successfully resisting supernatural temptation would be more impressive than the material sublimities of "Paradise Lost," but ordinary vision sees otherwise.

Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

In the general tenor of his poetry, he is ABOVE the Singer, -- he is the Seer and Revealer, who sees great truths beyond the bounds of the territory of general knowledge, instead of working over truths within that territory; and no seer of modern times has had his eyes more clearly purged with euphrasy and rue.

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

Rue and euphrasy, 240. nought shall make us, 80. with a difference, wear your, 142.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

A gracious and constant mind; as the herbage of its native hills, fragrant and pure; -- yet, to the sweep and the shadow, the stress and distress, of the greater souls of men, as the tufted thyme to the laurel wilderness of Tempe, -- as the gleaming euphrasy to the dark branches of

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

A gracious and constant mind; as the herbage of its native hills, fragrant and pure; -- yet, to the sweep and the shadow, the stress and distress, of the greater souls of men, as the tufted thyme to the laurel wilderness of Tempe, -- as the gleaming euphrasy to the dark branches of Dodona.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859