 To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness...  Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ... - Page 12by Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 502 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 pages
...but like a pair of compasses — Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when...far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And growi erect, as that comes home, Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...As stitf 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 when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circles just, And makes me end where I begun.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...•• Lift;." A »ulcctlOQ from his prove work* wai oublubed «i Ox.orl 1140, In one small volume. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other...it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt tliou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circles just, And... | |
 | T. P. Grinsted - 1867 - 340 pages
...says : — B " If they be two, they are too so As stiff twin compasses are two. Thy soul, the flx'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other...roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect when that conies home." Another name — it is that of a great painter — and we lower the curtain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...what he says. Pope took the expression from the simile of the compasses in Donne's Songs and Sonnets : And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other...hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes homo. * The MS. goes on thus : Tis not in self it can begin and end, The bliss of one must with another... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...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...soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, il" th' other do. And though ¡i in the centre sit, Tet when the other far doth roam. It leans, and... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...so As stiff twin compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do ; And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when...hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home." jjHO wants to see how the world can change its face ? Let him wander for an hour around Covent Garden,... | |
 | 1875 - 592 pages
...soul, he says— , If they be two, they are two so As still twin compasses are two. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move ; but doth if the other...roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect when that comes home. Whilst in Paris his fears were verified, and Izaak Walton, his friend, thus relates... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' h fright - th' other foot, obliquely run : Thy firmness makes my circles just, And makes me end where I begun.... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff' twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other...And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other fur doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou... | |
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