 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
 | 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 - 1876 - 870 pages
...ourselves know not what it is ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Chambers twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...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, Though I...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff' twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 144 pages
...our circle, we bring our heads (so. feet) together at the end." Dr. Donne : If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two ; Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. And though thine in the centre sit, Yet when my other far does roam, Thine leans... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...our circle, we bring our heads (sc. feet) together at the end." Dr. Donne : If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two ; Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. And though thine in the centre sit, Yet when my other far does roam, Thine leans... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...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 I...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.... | |
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