a. Having the bright or lively eyes of a young person; also fig.; occas. having a youthful vision. (In later use an echo of Shakespeare.)
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., V. i. 62. There’s not the smallest orbe … But in his motion like an Angell sings, Still quiring to the young eyed Cherubins.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Agamemnon, 749. To Troy the shining mischief came, Before her young-ey’d pleasures play.
1796. Coleridge, Death of Chatterton, xiv. And we … would round thee throng,… And greet with smiles the young-eyed Poesy All deftly mask’d as hoar Antiquity.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. xlvi. Young-eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds.
1820. Hazlitt, Lect. Dram. Lit., 14. The grace of Fletcher and his young-eyed wit.
1902. Q. Rev., Oct., 575. The embodiment of the fantastic visions of a young-eyed people fleeting their time carelessly in an atmosphere of wonder and enchantment.
