 Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but...  The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ... - Page 287by John Clark Ridpath - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 lehte
...stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or infgebetter claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy tUhmcss beat. COWLEY. 39 If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 lehte
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore which are one* Though I must...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do.. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 lehte
...That our souls know not what it is, Intta -assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, bat an expansion. Like gold to airy thuuiesi beat. If we be two, we are two so «*• As stiff twin-compasses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 lehte
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or Ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no sho* To move, but doth if th' other do, And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 lehte
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 lehte
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one. Though I...to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two s» • As stiff twin compasses are two , Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 lehte
...Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore (which are one) Though I must go, indure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And tho' it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 lehte
...absurdity or ingenuity has better claim: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, eudure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, bat doth if the' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 lehte
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the Six'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 lehte
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
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