 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 fixed foot, makes no show To move, but...  A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-book - Página 184por Edward Albert - 1923 - 542 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 páginas
...more fanciful and ingenious. He says to a wife who remains at home while her husband is abroad : " Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do : And though it in the center sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, Alas ! I have lost... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...ourselves know not what it is ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Chambers fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 páginas
...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...so As stiff' twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 610 páginas
...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...the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th1 other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | 1882 - 686 páginas
...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...two, they are two so, As stiff twin compasses are two ; The soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the... | |
 | English lyrics - 1883 - 330 páginas
...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...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 páginas
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, 20 Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. 25 If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 páginas
...standard example— one senses the intellectual strain and ingenuity required to justify the comparison: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses...the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if t'other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and harkens... | |
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