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  THE COLOUR OF LIFE
  time。    It was large; and of a dark cast; and glowed (I say literally glowed)
  when he spoke with feeling or interest。             The eye alone; I think; indicated
  the poetical character and temperament。〃 No eye literally glows; but some
  eyes are polished a little more; and reflect。             And this is the utmost that
  can possibly have been true as to the eyes of Burns。                  But set within the
  meanings       of  impetuous     eyelids    the  lucidity   of   the  dark   eyes    seemed
  broken; moved; directed into fiery shafts。
  See; too; the reproach of little; sharp; grey eyes addressed to Hazlitt。
  There are neither large nor small eyes; say physiologists; or the difference
  is so small as to be negligeable。          But in the eyelids the difference is great
  between   large   and   small;      and   also   between    the   varieties   of  largeness。
  Some   have   large   openings;   and   some   are   in   themselves   broad   and   long;
  serenely covering eyes called small。             Some have far more drawing than
  others; and interesting foreshortenings and sweeping curves。
  Where else is spirit so evident?          And where else is it so spoilt? There
  is no vulgarity like the vulgarity of vulgar eyelids。             They have a slang all
  their own; of an intolerable kind。           And eyelids have looked all the cruel
  looks     that  have    ever   made    wounds      in  innocent     souls   meeting     them
  surprised。
  But all love and all genius have winged their flight from those slight
  and   unmeasurable   movements;   have   flickered   on   the   margins   of   lovely
  eyelids   quick   with   thought。     Life;   spirit;   sweetness   are   there   in   a   small
  place; using the finest and the slenderest machinery; expressing meanings
  a   whole   world   apart;   by   a   difference   of   material   action   so   fine   that   the
  sight    which    appreciates     it  cannot    detect   it;  expressing     intricacies   of
  intellect; so incarnate in slender   and sensitive   flesh that   nowhere else   in
  the body of man is flesh so spiritual。
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  Meynell
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