Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center 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... "
The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 31
by Samuel Johnson - 1818
Full view - About this book

The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ...

William Oldys - English drama - 1740 - 326 pages
...foul, the fixt foot makes too mew To move, but doth, if th' other do. , And tho' it in the center fit. Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows ereft, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th'<other foot, obliquely run ; Thy...
Full view - About this book

Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...tut doth, if th* other do. .--.'•• . .-.--.v • ' . . , And tho' it in the centre -fit, . ., Vet -when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, Andgraws £re£t, as that comes home. Sudh wilt thou be to me, who muft LJ-ke th' other foot, obliquely...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...the fixt foot", makes no fhow To move, but doth, if th1 other do, And though it in the centre (it, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erecl:, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me; who muft Jjke th'"other foot, obliquely run. Tby...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...they be two, they are two fo As ftiff twin-compafles are two, Thy foul the fixt foot, makes no fhow To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erecT:, as that comes...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet .when the other far doth roam, .'. •lt leans, and. hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my circle' juft, And makes me end where...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...they be two, they are two fo As ftifftwin-cempafles are two, Thy foul the fixt foot, makes no fhow To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far do.th roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows ereft, as that comes...
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...they be two, they are two fo As ftiff twin-csmpafles are two, Thy foul the fixt foot, makes no fhow To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows ereft, as that comes...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...they be two, they are two fo, As fliff twin-compafies are tvyo ; Thy foul the fixt foot, makes no fhow To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre fif, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows ereft as that comes...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...foul the fixt foot, makes no ftiow To move, but doth, if th' other do. And tho' it in the centre fit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows creet, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thyfirmnefs...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...they be two, they arc two fo As ftiff twin compaffes are two; Thy foul, the fixt foot, makes no fhow To move, but doth if th,' other do. And though it in the center fit. Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows cred as that...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF