"Sand-blind" Quotes from Famous Books
... five years old: a huge delight it proved And still proves—thanks to that instructor sage My Father, who knew better than turn straight Learning's full flare on weak-eyed ignorance, Or, worse yet, leave weak eyes to grow sand-blind, Content with ... — Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... places with thy foolish cackle; or, what were better, give it up, and weep, not that the reign of wonder is done, and God's world all disembellished and prosaic, but that thou hitherto art a Dilettante and sand-blind Pedant." ... — Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle |