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On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
Robert Greene— Robert Greene, Philomela, Sonnet.
No cord norcable cansoforciblydraw, orhold sofast, as love can do with a twined thread.The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zonecannot avoid orexpel thisheat, fury, and rage of mortal men.
— 1621Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
john dryden— 1678 MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.19-24.
The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no! They can't take that away from me!
— 1937 'They Can't Take That Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).
Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.
john milton— Lycidas, l. 165-73 (1637)
And we are put on earth a little space,That we may learn to bear the beams of love,And these black bodies and this sunburnt faceIs but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
william blake— The Little Black Boy, st. 4
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,When the ev'ning beams are set?
thomas campion— Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?
Stand still, you floods, do not defaceThat image which you bear:So votaries, from every place,To you shall altars rear.No winds but lovers' sighs blow here,To trouble these glad streams,On which no star from any sphereDid ever dart such beams.
thomas carew— "On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams, and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
washington irving— "The Wife".
Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone.
james macpherson— "Carthon", p. 163.
Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-spaceWhen the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt carThrills with intenser radiance from afar,—So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign graceWhen the drear soul desires thee.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— Gracious Moonlight.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
john dryden— l. 19-24. (Mac Flecknoe (1682))
Why, you might read two sonnets, ere they reach To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach A natural sermon o’er their pebbly beds; Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, Staying their wavy bodies ’gainst the streams, To taste the luxury of sunny beams Temper’d with coolness.
john keats— "I Stood Tiptoe", l. 72.
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.
john milton— Line 166. (Lycidas (1637))
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 8
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,...
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 3
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills; Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
— Act II, scene 5, line 4.
One of those passing rainbow dreams, Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams Paint on the fleeting mists that roll, In trance or slumber, round the soul!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Fire Worshippers, Stanza 54.
At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phœbus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto V, Stanza 2.
As when the golden sun salutes the morn, And, having gilt the ocean with his beams, Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach, And overlooks the highest-peering hills.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Act II, scene 1, line 5.
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
Edmund Waller— Edmund Waller, To the King upon His Majesty's Happy Return, line 1.
The sun is set, and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Summer Day by the Sea.
To-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Abraham Cowley— Abraham Cowley, A Vote, last lines.
This bottle's the sun of our table, His beams are rosy wine; We planets that are not able Without his help to shine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna (1775), Act III, Scene 5.
This bottle's the sun of our table, His beams are rosy wine; We planets that are not able Without his help to shine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Act III, scene 5.
Nor shall the marigold unmentioned die, Which Acis once found out in Sicily; She Phoebus loves, and from him draws his hue, And ever keeps his golden beams in view.
— Rapin, in his Latin Poem on Gardens, translated by Gardiner in 1706.
The Greeks elaborated several theories of vision. According to the Pythagoreans , Democritus , and others vision is caused by the projection of particles from the object seen, into the pupil of the eye. On the other hand Empedocles , the Platonists , and Euclid held the strange doctrine of ocular beams, according to which the eye itself sends out something which causes sight as soon as it meets something else emanated by the object.
— Florian Cajori, A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches (1899)
