The influence of the stars : $b a book of old world loreBaughan, Rosa
Religion
The influence of the stars : $b a book of old world lore
Baughan, Rosa
Astrology; Palmistry; Physiognomy
Angry, irritable persons have frequently eyes of a brownish tint,
inclined to a greenish hue. Although the purely green eye of which I
have spoken indicates deceit and coquetry, the propensity to greenish
tints in the eyes is a sign of wisdom and courage. Very choleric
persons, if they have blue eyes, have also certain tints of green in
them and, when under the influence of anger, a sudden red light appears
in them. Such eyes as these are generally found in connection with the
sanguine, or, as it is sometimes called, choleric temperament; that is,
in those persons who have been born under the double influence of
Jupiter and Mars; but, when we see these red tints in the eyes, it
would be a sign that, of the two planets presiding over this
temperament, Mars was dominant.
Clear grey-blue eyes, with a calm steadfastness in their glance, are
indicative of cheerfulness of disposition, of a serene temper and a
constant nature. These eyes are peculiar to the Northern nations; one
meets with them among the Swedes, and also sometimes amongst the
Scotch. The blue eyes we see among the rare blondes of the South--that
is, in Italy and Spain--always have eyes in which there are some
greenish tints; and such eyes, though often called light blue, have
none of the qualities of serenity and constancy which belong to the
light blue eyes of the North. Neither must the pleasant light blue eye,
with the honest glance, be confounded with another sort of eye of a
pale blue, almost steel-coloured hue, which has a continually shifting
sort of motion both of the eyelids and the pupils of the eyes. People
with such eyes as these are to be avoided, as they are indicative of a
deceitful and selfish nature. Very dark blue eyes, with something of
the tint of the violet, show great power of affection and purity of
mind, but not much intellectuality.
Grey eyes, of a somewhat greenish grey, with orange as well as blue in
them, and which are of ever-varying tints, like the sea, are those
which denote most intellectuality. They are especially indicative of
the impulsive, impressionable temperament--a mixture of the sanguine
and the bilious--which produces the poetic and artistic natures. The
line--
"The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling,"
does not suggest a blue, or even a black, so much as the changeful,
ever-varying tinted, grey eye; and it is a fact that in England (where
there are more varieties of tints in eyes than in any other country)
the poets have almost always grey eyes. A biographer of Byron speaks of
his "beautiful, changeful grey eyes, which deepened in colour when he
was under the influence of tenderness and passion, and which glowed
with a red light when he was angry." Shakespeare also had, we are told,
grey eyes, and so had Sir Walter Scott; whilst Coleridge had eyes of a
greenish grey. Among the artists, too, eyes of this colour abound.
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