 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...  Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review - Page 2481882Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two яои!я, therefore (which are soft with pity ; and when winter evenings fall early, expaniuon, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so A» stiff twin compasses... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Inter-a-ssured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore (which are no ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. I That if, abucnc*. Ала... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. Pope. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...so As stiff twin compasses are two; The soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...Valediction forbidding Mourning. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, indure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And, though it in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : " Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...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...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff' twin-compas-sos are two ; Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if th' other do.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...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...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 th' other do.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls, therefore, (which are one,) Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As still" twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the lix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...Miehad Draytan. Our two soals, therefore, whieh are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breaeh, but an expansion ; Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin eompasses are two; The son!, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...therefore, whieh are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breaeh, but an expansion; Like gold to asry thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin eompasses are two; The soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though... | |
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