 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 sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows...  The Lives of the English Poets - Page 28by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caroline 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pages
...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 - 1863 - 788 pages
...breach, but an 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,...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... | |
 | 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 - 182 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...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, The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...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 two;...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
...VI. DR. DONNE S FAMILY APARTMENT IN LONDON. ''- Our two souls, therefore, 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,... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1874 - 370 pages
...Donne, addressed to his wife ; having nothing better to add, I transcribe them, — " If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul — the fixed foot — makes no show To move, but doth if th'other do. It leans and hearkens after it, And... | |
 | 1875 - 592 pages
...As still 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...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 friend,... | |
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