 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...  The Modern Language Review - Page 281912Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin eompasses are two; The soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the eentre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows ereet, as that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...one,) 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...show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though i< in the centre sit. Yet when the other iar doth roam, It lean?, and hoarkens after it, And grows... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...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 To move, but does if th' other do. And though thine in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...one, [ Though I mail 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...foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. • _"S ;-•.., And thoush It in the centre sit. Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...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...makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. l Read— Johnaon'a "Lite of Cowley;" alao, an article in the " Betroapectlve Review," vlll. si, which... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 1859 - 780 pages
...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, And grows erect as that comos home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 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...hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes honu. Such wilt thou be to mo, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run, Thy firmness makes my... | |
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