 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...  Poems of John Donne - Seite 23von John Donne - 1896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be 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 an expanson, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they^be two, they are two so . . .-,. As stiff twin-compasses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : 'Our two souls, therefore, which are one. Though I...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... | |
 | 1810 - 594 Seiten
...That our souls know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not, hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls * therefore which are one, Though I...but an expansion, Like gold, to airy thinness beat. * Our two souls.] " To the following comparison of a man that travels, and his wife that stays at home,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are on«, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an...expansion, » Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they bo two, they are two so As stifftwin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 Seiten
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes 1'1'N a«l hands, to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Uke gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so A, stiff. twin compasses are two, Thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or infgebetter claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 Seiten
...That our souls know not what it is, Intta -assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, bat an expansion. Like gold to airy thuuiesi beat. If we be two, we are two so «*• As stiff twin-compasses... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 418 Seiten
...That our souls know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If we be two ; we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...the mind, Care not hands,' eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though 1 must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If we be two ; we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 Seiten
...Absence, because that doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we, by a love so far refind, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, — Though I must go, —... | |
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