 Our two souls, therefore, which are 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 two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but...  The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a ... - Page 1441888 - 555 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 456 pages
...Careless eyes, lips, and hands, to miss, so Our two souls therefore, which are one, Tho' I must go, mdure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stilr'twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'dfoot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...expanson, Like gold to airy thinness beat. 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' othsr do. And And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roarr. It leans, and hearkens... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim : Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an...thinness beat. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : 'Our two souls, therefore, which are one. Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. , , IE they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better chim : Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an...thinness beat. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are on«, 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 stifftwin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Care not, hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls * therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold, to airy thinness beat. * Our two souls.] " To the following comparison of a man that travels, and his wife that stays at home,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 748 pages
...two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Uke gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so A, stiff. twin compasses are two, Thy «o«l, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands, to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, - t» -r Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so A- stiff twin compasses are... | |
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