 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...  The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ... - Page 25by Samuel Johnson - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,) Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stirT twin compasses arc two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show And though it in the centre... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. 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 we be two ? we are two so As stiff twin- compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix 'd foot, makes no show... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 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 bo two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To... | |
 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 pages
...Referring in these verses to his own and his wife's soul, he says : — " If they be two, they are too so As stiff twin compasses are two. Thy soul, the fix'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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 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 And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other fiir doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 440 pages
...wife, on the eve of his journey to France : — " If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. " And though thine in the centre sit, Tet when my other far does roam, Thine... | |
 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 pages
...wife, ou the eve of his iourney to France : — " If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. " And though thine in the centre sit, Yet when my other far does roam, Thine... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,) Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like...makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. i Read— Johnson'* •' Life of Cowley ;" also, an article In the " Retrospective Review," vUl. I),... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,) Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like...be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are twoj Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 pages
...metaphysical school says, if their souls be two, they are 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 the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it,... | |
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