 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 211912Full view - About this book
 | 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...far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And growi erect, as that comes home, Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 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...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),... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 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 tha other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, 03 that comes home. Such... | |
 | Carolyn Snowden Guild - 1860 - 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 erecl:, as that comes home Such wilt thou be to me, who muft, Like the other foot, obliquely run :... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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 are twoj Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 344 pages
...are one, Though I must go endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness bent. 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 t'other do : And though it in the centre fit. Yet when... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...breach, but an 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 184 pages
...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness heat. If we he two, we are two, so — As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, hut does if th' other do. And thongh thine in the centre sit, Yet, when my other far does roam, Thine... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...what he says. Pope took the expression from the simile of the compasses in Donne's Songs and Sonnets : And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other...hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes homo. * The MS. goes on thus : Tis not in self it can begin and end, The bliss of one must with another... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 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...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... | |
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