 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 John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir ... - Seite 555von John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 Seiten
...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 fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 Seiten
...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 fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | 1810 - 594 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if tV other do. Aral though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...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 - 1816 - 486 Seiten
...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 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 Seiten
...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 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 - 1820 - 476 Seiten
...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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
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