| Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...which elemented it. But we, by a love so far refin'd, That ourselves know not what it is, fnter-assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss....so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the Ji-x'd foot, makes no show To move, but does ifth' other do. And though thine in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...refined, 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,)...but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat If they be two, they are two so As stirTtwin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...refined, That ourselves know not what it is ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands Th they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
| John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...refined, That 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,...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 fixt foot, makes no show... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...refin'd, 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,...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...refin'd, 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,...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...refin'd, 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,...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... | |
| 1882 - 686 pages
...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...an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so, As stiff twin compasses are two ; The soul, the fix'd foot, makes no... | |
| English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 pages
...refined, 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...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... | |
| English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 340 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which arc 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... | |
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