 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 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,...  The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Page 393by Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat If they be two, they are two so 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 the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat If they be two, they are two so As stirTtwin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. ' Rend— JohnM>n'B "Life of Cowlcy;" ul<>o, nn article In the " Retrospective Review," vIP. u, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 pages
...individuals.' Cf. Donne, in the celebrated simile of the compasses, Valediction, Poems, p. 36 (ed. 1719) : * And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth rome, It leans and hearkens after it.' 1.47. Each has hin share. Southwell, Times go by Turns ; Ellis*... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...expression from the simile of the compasses in Donne's Songs and Sonnets : 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 homo. * The MS. goes on thus : Tis not in self it can begin and end,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...expansion, Like gold to airy 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, 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
...which are one, 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 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... | |
 | 1875 - 592 pages
...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 after it, And grows erect when that comes home. Whilst in Paris his fears were verified, and Izaak Walton, his... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed ould d - centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that... | |
 | 1877 - 410 pages
...soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erecr., as that comes home Such wilt thou be to me, who muft, Like the other foot, obliquely... | |
 | 1877 - 366 pages
...soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows ereft, as that comes home Such wilt thou be to me, who muft, Like the other foot, obliquely... | |
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