 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...LOVER. I dote on his very absence. Merchant of I 'cnicc, Act \, Se, 2. SHAKESPEARE. PRESENCE IN ABSENCE. son breacli, but au expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they arc two so As stiff... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...Euphuistic puzzle is worked out in this fashion by John Donne : — Our two souls, therefore, which art' 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 ; The soul, the fix'd foot, makes no... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 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, Though...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... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 340 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 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 fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1884 - 498 pages
...that doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we, by a love so far refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If we be two 1 we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix' d foot, makes no show To move,... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 708 pages
...cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling. Here is a little love-lyric of Donne's : — " Our two sonls, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but au expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two, BO As stiff twin-compasses... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...wit, though not the greatest poet, of our nation." The following is a typical specimen of his style.* Our two souls therefore — which are one— Though I must go, endure ' not yet A breach,2 but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...remove Those things which elemented it. "But we, by a love so far refined, That ourselves know nnt what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not hands,...which are one — Though I must go — endure not yc-t A bieach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat " If we be two? we are two so As stiff... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. l' Our two souls, therefore, which are one — Though...but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. ~f~ ''I." we be two ? we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...positions to those of the two legs of a pair of compasses. Our two souls, therefore, which are ond 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 fixt foot, makes no show... | |
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