 | 1909 - 642 Seiten
...constancy. It is Donne's great figure of the compasses, only in this instance the man is the fixed foot. "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,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 542 Seiten
...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 center sit, Yet,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 512 Seiten
...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. THE INFLUENCE OF DONNE 371 And though... | |
 | 1912 - 812 Seiten
...in the edition of 1640). * ' A Lent Sermon preached at Whitehall, February 20, 1617, '.m, 1, p. 8. 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,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1914 - 344 Seiten
...constancy. It is Donne's great figure of the compasses, only in this instance the man is the fixed foot. "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,... | |
 | 1914 - 546 Seiten
...Mourning" the figure becomes a thing of haunting suggestiveness and piquancy. "If they [our souls] 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 though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 Seiten
...that turns the wine of life into poison ; or from mechanics, comparing lovers to a pair of dividers : 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 the other do. Several of these poets, commonly grouped... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1920 - 472 Seiten
...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 center sit, Yet when... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry W. Wells - 1924 - 256 Seiten
...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 center sit, Yet,... | |
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To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre 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... 
