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 Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse - Page liiby Abraham Cowley - 1809Full view - About this book
| John Bell - 1799 - 402 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 - 1800 - 714 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...not yet A breach, but an expanson. Like gold to airy thinneu beat. If they be two, they are two so f As stiff twin-compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no showTo more, but doth, if i\i other do. And \ And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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...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 doth if th' other do.... | |
| 1810 - 594 pages
...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 which are one, Though I...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 - 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...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 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...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 two, ; ry »oul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To more, but doth, if th'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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...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 doth if tV other do.... | |
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