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 Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and ... - Page 206by Izaak Walton - 1901 - 497 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 360 pages
...image into fragments, and left not only reason, but fancy behind them.' DONNE'S VEE8ES TO HIS WIFE : ' Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go endure not yet A breach, but au expansion, Like gold to airy thinness bent. If they be two, they are two so As stiif twin compasses... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...refined, That ourselves know not what it is; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,)...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, makes no show... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1864 - 460 pages
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim : — " Our two souls therefore, which arc 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 flxt foot, makes no show... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...refined, That ourselves know not what it is ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,)...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... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim: " Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure nut yet 84 A broach, but au ехрапнюм, Like pold to airy thinness beat. It they be two, they... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...refined, That ourselves know not what it is ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands Th they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
| John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, which are one,...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 fixt foot, makes no show... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands, to miss ; Our two souls therefore, which are one,...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands, to miss ; Our two souls therefore, which are one,...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands, to miss ; Our two souls therefore, which are one,...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... | |
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