 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 - 1816 - 486 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 must...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..... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...That our souls know not what it is, Intta -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 A breach, bat an expansion. Like gold to airy thuuiesi beat. If we be two, we are two so «*• As stiff twin-compasses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 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 sho* To move, but doth if th' other do,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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...to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two s» • As stiff twin compasses are two , Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore (which are one) Though I must go, indure 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 doth, if th' other do.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...absurdity or ingenuity has better claim: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, eudure 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, bat doth if the' other do.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 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.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore (which are one) Though I must go, indure 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 doth, if th' other do.... | |
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