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General misogyny of the 1800s aside, these guys know how to embellish the fuck out of romantic prose about these women’s beauty, especially their eyes
— Apr 04, 2025 01:10PM
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Why is it always, "i love you" and never "her eyes did not resemble those burning orbs whose pale glow gems the vault of night"
«her eyes did not resemble those burning orbs whose pale glow gems the vault of night, and whose immeasurable distance fills the soul with deep thoughts of eternity, but rather as the sober beams which cheer this nether world, and which, while they enlighten, kindle sons of earth to joy and love.»
«her eye beamed eloquently, but it was with the milder radiance of a star, tranquillising to tenderness rather than exciting to warmth.»