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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but... The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Página 38por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 páginas
...whether absurdity or ingenuity has better chum: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, [ Though I mail go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like...the fix'd 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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...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...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they bo two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To... | |
| T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 páginas
...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, 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,... | |
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 440 páginas
...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... | |
| Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 778 páginas
...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...the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. i Read— Johnson'* •' Life of Cowley ;" also, an article In the " Retrospective Review,"... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...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...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, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 540 páginas
...before her marriage but continued to the close of his heroic life. "Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to any thinness beat." Those lines of Dr. Donne's'well express the perfect sympathy between the brother... | |
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