 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' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness...  Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ... - 第 12 頁Samuel Johnson 著 - 1840 - 502 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 頁
...what be says. Pope took the expression from the simile of the compasses in Donne's Songs and Sonnets : And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other...hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. 4 The MS. goes on thus : "Tig not in self it can begin and end, The bliss of one must with another... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1890 - 32 頁
...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 when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmness makes my circles just, And makes me end where I begun."... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 頁
...As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, bnt doth if th' other do. " And though it in the centre sit, Yet when...after it, And grows erect as that comes home. " Such wflt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely rnn ; Thy firmness makes my circles just,... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 頁
...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...the fix'd foot, makes no show 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... | |
 | 1892 - 702 頁
...by most critics, the comparison of himself and her to a pair of compasses, — " Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other...the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, /( leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect an that comes home." One thing that must be noticeable... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 頁
...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 when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run : Thy firmness makes my circles just, And makes me end where I begun.... | |
 | John Donne - 1895 - 326 頁
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th" other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun. THE... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 頁
...As stiff twin compasses are two, Th> soul, the fix'd foot, makes no shoy To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run, Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I bezuii.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 頁
...two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Th> soul, the fix'd foot, makes no To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when...comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run, Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I be;;u:i.... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 頁
...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when...comes home Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circles just, And makes me end where I begun.... | |
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