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... Devotions, by J. Donne. With two sermons. i. On the decease of lady Danvers ... - Página xlipor John Donne - 1840Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Bell - 1799 - 402 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...home, 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 not yet A breach, but an expanson, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they^be two, they are two so . . .-,. As stiff twin-compasses... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 páginas
...home, 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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 páginas
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : 'Our two souls, therefore, which are one. Though I...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... | |
| 1810 - 594 páginas
...by a soul so much refin'd, That our souls know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not, hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls * therefore...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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 páginas
...refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes 1'1'N a«l hands, to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or infgebetter claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy tUhmcss beat. COWLEY. 39 If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has 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 fix'd foot, makes no show... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore which are one* Though I must...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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