 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 that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 35by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...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, when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the' other foot obliquely run : Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...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...it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt tliou be to me, who mast Like the' other foot obliquely run : Thy firmuess makes my circle jast, And... | |
 | 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...thuiness beat. If they lte 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...far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And ip-ows erect as that conies home. Such wtlt thou be to me, who must, Like tti1 other foot obliquely... | |
 | 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... | |
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