Part 55

as = according as, +je nachdem+.

or deserts it = or not.

+forschend.+

+Perlenauge.+

+im Mauseköpfchen.+

+das einem Edelsteine gleichende Auge.+

Say ‘which lets us forget the ugliness of the toad’.

which — the = in the.

There are these ... full = These ... are full. Full of, +voller+.

+im Auge des Menschen jedoch liegt eine alles übertreffende Pracht.+

Section 75.

THE BEAUTY OF THE EYE.

II.

We realise this fully only when we gaze into the faces of those we love. It is their eyes (S. 16, N. 10) we look at when we are near them, and recall when we are far away. The face is a blank without the eye, and the eye seems to concentrate every feature in itself. It is the eye that smiles, not the lips; it is the eye that listens, not the ear; it that frowns, not the brow; it that mourns, not the voice. Every sense and every faculty seems to flow toward it, and find expression through it, nay, to be lost in it; for all must have felt at times as if a man’s eye was not a part of him, but (S. 6, N. 10) the man himself; as if it had not merely life, but also a personality of its own;—as if it was not only a living, but also a thinking being.—PROF. G. WILSON.

‘to realise’, here = to comprehend, +begreifen+. The object ‘this’ may be emphasized by being placed at the head of the clause. Fully only, +erst ganz+.

Say ‘when we look upon (+betrachten+) the face (+Antlitz+, n.) of our loved ones (+unserer Lieben+)’.

+Es sind.+

+anblicken.+

and which we recall (+sich zurückrufen+).

are far away, +fern von ihnen weilen+.

a blank = expressionless.

Supply here the adj. ‘individual’ (+einzeln+).

+lauschen.+

Say ‘the eye frowns (+zürnen+, i.e. to look angry)’.

Say ‘the eye is sad’.

+Gemütsstimmung+, f.

to — it, +dahin zu strömen+.

‘it’, here = the same.