 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, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness...  Outlines of English and American Literature - Page 138by William Joseph Long - 1917 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, 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 no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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 doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...and his wife that stays at home, with a pair of If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but does, if th' other do. And, though thine in the centre sit, Yet, when my other far does roam, Thine... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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 move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 doth if tV other do. Aral though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...Though I must go, endure not 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, tiie fix'd foot, makes no slmw To move, but doth if tli' other do. And though it in the centre sit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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 doth if th' other do.. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...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 sho* To move, but doth if th' other do, And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...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 doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...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. And tho' it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
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