 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...ingenious. He says to a wife who remains at home while her husband is abroad : " Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do : And though it in the center sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two 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 the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two 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 the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...thinness beat If they be two, they are two 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 ait, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...thinness beau If they be two, they are two во Ae stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other...sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and barkens after rt, And grows erect as that comes home Such wilt thou be to me-, who must, Like th' other... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...seems meant, by anticipation, for the methodist preacher, when blessed like Clarke — ' The one doth in the centre sit ; Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and harkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home.' Indeed, the locomotiveness of the preacher amongst... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...seems meant, by anticipation, for the methodist preacher, when blessed like Clarke — ' The one doth in the centre sit ; Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and harkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home.' Indeed, the locomotiveness of the preacher amongst... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the ftx'd foot, makes DO ied him ; and he dropped it in a flower-pot in the parlour. Young n ait, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and harkeos after it, And grow* erect as thnt comes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...they he two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no ehow To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in...sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and harkens after it, And crows erect as that comes home Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th1 other... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 604 pages
...expansion, Like gold to aery 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 doth, if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens... | |
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