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... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 35by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
| Religion - 1887 - 708 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two, BO As stiff twin-compasses are two. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And i lui' it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...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...it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam,3 It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me,... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...what be says. Pope took the expression from the simile of the compasses in Donne's Songs and Sonnets : And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other...hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. 4 The MS. goes on thus : "Tig not in self it can begin and end, The bliss of one must with another... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 518 pages
...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...hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. " Snch wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circles... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...jet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinno» 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, bnt doth if th' other do. " And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans... | |
| Religion - 1892 - 702 pages
...her to a pair of compasses, — " 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 the other far doth roam, /( leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect an that comes home." One thing that must be noticeable... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other...the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, 3° It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other...the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 410 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other...the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1895 - 368 pages
...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. And tho' it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows... | |
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