 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
 | John Donne - 1895 - 326 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... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 412 pages
...Progress of Satire, Cassell's National •*~*&rary, No. 151, pp. i ii 5.) " To the following coTO^txaOTi that travels and his wife that stays at home with...doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better clairrMr^» ." (Lives of the English Poets, Cowley, ed. Tauchnitz, p. 25.) This deli^-^ ^^r ance is... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 pages
...That ourselves know not what it is. Inter-assured of the mind, Careless, eyes, lips and hands to miss, —Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though...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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 349 pages
...extraordinary concoctions of fancy. Their cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling; as in this: " Our two souls, 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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 pages
...extraordinary concoctions of fancy. Their cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling; as in this: " Our two so ills, 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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 pages
...extraordinary concoctions of fancy. Their cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling; as in this: " Our two souls, 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Vernon Blackburn - 1895 - 344 pages
...hands, eyes, 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. If we be two ? we are'two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pages
...to 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1896 - 474 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 452 pages
...That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less eyes, lips, 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 fixt foot, makes... | |
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