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" To the following comparison of a man that travels and his wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets - Page 30
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...ihee : For joy, like wine, kept close does better taste ; Jf it take air before, its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that travels,...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,...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...thee: For ioy, like wine. kept close does better taste ; If it take air before, its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that traVels, and his wife tint stavs at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has...
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 1

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...: For joy, like wine, kept close does better taste ; • If it take air before, its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that travels,...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,...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...thee : For joy, like wine, kept close does better taste ; If it take air before, its spirits wasteTo the following comparison of a man that travels, and...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,...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...thee : For joy, like wine kept close, does better taste ; If it take air before its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that travels...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....
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Bishop Jewel. Bernard Gilpin. Richard Hooker. Archbishop Whitgift. John ...

1810 - 594 pages
...go, endure not yet A breach, 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, 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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...10 thee : Kor joy, like witie kept close does better taste, If it take air before its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that travels...has better claim : Our two souls, therefore, which arc one, Though I must go,. endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ...

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...to thee : Far joy, like wine kept close does better taste, If it take air before its spirits waste. To the following comparison of a man that travels...compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or infgebetter claim : Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach,...
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr ...

Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...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...
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