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" Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. "
The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... - Page 170
by William Oldys - 1740
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 20

George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1828 - 384 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities, Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. , Love looks not with the eyes,...painted blind : Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste: And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but...painted blind ; Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste : And therefore is love said to be a child, Because...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...eye«, So I, admiring of his qualities, Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is winced Cupid painted blind: Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; ^Vings, and no eves, figure...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind : And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to t ; — but let that l*as*. Peter Simple, you sav, your name is ? Sim. Ay, for a fa winged Cupid painted blind ; Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings, and no eves, figure...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to , thou hast robbed me of my youth : - '-' ) I better...proud titles thou hast won of me; They wound my thoug taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste; And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to thy buskin tread, And shake u stage : or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone f winged Cupid painted blind ; Nor hath love's roiiKfof any judgment faste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure...
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Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted Mind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure...
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The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ...

1838 - 500 pages
...every reader of the ' Midsummer Night's Dream.' Apropos, when, in the same piece, the poet says — " Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind," we are reminded of the creed in pagan mythology which supposed a transfer of the sense of vision doubtless...
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La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays ...

Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 376 pages
...lovers are blind." — Burtons Anat. of Melancholy. Shakspeare thus accounts for Cupid's blindness : " Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, " And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind." XVII. The greedy Hawk with sudden sight of lure, Doth stoop in hope to have her wished prey ; So many...
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