 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, Though I must go, endure not yet A...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 18by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1889 - 898 pages
...hands, eye?, or lips 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. ' ' I. we be two? we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 626 pages
...stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it y be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the ter claim : " Our two souls therefore, which are one,...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... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 pages
...That ourselves know what it U; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss. " Our two souls, therefore (which are one), Though I...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,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...of delight. Thou bring'at us an eeUte, yet leav'st us poor, By clogging it with legacies before !" To the following comparison of a man that travels...may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim: " Our two ranis, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet 180 A... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1893 - 352 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less eyes, lips, and hand, to miss. Our two souls, therefore, which are one. Though I...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 pages
...ia ; Inter-assured of the mind, Careless eyes, lipa, and hands to Our two souls, therefore—which are one— Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but ten expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - 448 pages
...of delight, Thon bring'st us an estate, yet leav'st us poor, By clogging it with legacies before !" To the following comparison of a man that travels...may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim: ' Our two Rouls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet 180 A... | |
 | 1895 - 424 pages
...(Discourse on the Original and Progress of Satire, Cassell's National Library, No. 151, pp. 11-15.) "To the following comparison of a man that travels...whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim." (Lives of the English Poets, Cowley, ed. Tauchnitz, p. 25.) This deliver ance is worthy of a place... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 442 pages
...of Satire, Cassell's National Library, No. 151, pp. 11-15.) "To the following comparison of a man J that travels and his wife that stays at home with...whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim." (Lives of the English Poets, Cowley, ed. Tauchnitz, p. 25.) This deliver ance is worthy of a place... | |
 | John Donne - 1895 - 334 pages
...Now his breath goes," 1669. 2 Of absence, 'cause it doth remove, The thing which elemented it, ibid. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...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... | |
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