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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but... The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ... - Seite 20von Izaak Walton - 1824 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...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 an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stirT twin compasses arc two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 Seiten
...whether absurdity or ingenuity has better chum: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, [ Though I mail 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... | |
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 440 Seiten
...pleasing is contained in Donne's valediction to his wife, on the eve of his journey to France : — " If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. " And though thine in the centre sit,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...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 an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other fiir doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it,... | |
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 Seiten
...pleasing is contained in Donne's valediction to his wife, on the eve of his journey to France : — " If we be two, we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two: Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. " And though thine in the centre sit,... | |
| Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 Seiten
...expanfion, Like gold to airy thinnefs beat. If they be two, they are two so As ftirF twin compaffes are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 540 Seiten
...marriage but continued to the close of his heroic life. "Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to any thinness beat." Those lines of Dr. Donne's'well express the perfect sympathy between the brother... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 Seiten
...fancy behind them.' DONNE'S VERSES TO HIS WIFE : ' Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness bent. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the flxt foot, makes... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 Seiten
...expansion, Like gold to airy thinness bent. 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 t'other do : And though it in the centre fit. Yet when the other far doth rome, It leans and... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...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 an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat If they be two, they are two so As stitf twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show... | |
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