Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volume 1Baldwin and Cradock, 1837 |
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Page 17 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Page 100 - How, as in brazen pumps the pistons move, The membrane valve sustains the weight above, Stroke follows stroke, the gelid vapour falls, And misty dew-drops dim the crystal walls; Rare and more rare expands the fluid thin, And silence dwells with vacancy within.
Page 272 - The maidens all flocked in his boat so readily, And he eyed the young rogues with so charming an air, That this waterman ne'er was in want of a fare. What sights of fine folks he oft row'd in his...
Page 132 - Here high in air the rising stream he pours To clay-built cisterns, or to lead-lined towers ; Fresh through a thousand pipes the wave distils, And thirsty cities drink the exuberant rills. There the vast mill-stone with inebriate whirl On trembling floors his forceful fingers twirl, Whose flinty teeth the golden harvests grind, Feast without blood ! and nourish human-kind.
Page 211 - THERE was an old man, who lived in a wood, As you may plainly see ; He said he could do as much work in a day, As his wife could do in three. With all my heart...
Page 100 - When she had first learned them by rote, barometer and air pump had been so jumbled in her head, that she could not understand them. " How up exhausted tubes bright currents flow Of liquid silver from the lake below ; Weigh the long column of th...
Page 133 - Now his hard hands on Mona's rifted crest, Bosom'd in rock, her azure ores arrest; With iron lips his rapid rollers seize The lengthening bars, in thin expansion squeeze ; Descending screws with ponderous fly-wheels wound The tawny plates, the new medallions round ; Hard dyes of steel the cupreous circles cramp, And with quick fall his massy hammers stamp.
Page 211 - And you must milk the tiny cow, Lest she should go dry ; And you must feed the little pigs That are within the sty. * And you must watch the speckled hen, Lest she should go astray ; Not forgetting the spool of yarn That I spin every day.
Page 132 - Each cavern'd rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores.
Page 134 - The slow barge now goes as fast as you please," said Harry. " The rapid car is to come; and I dare say that will be accomplished soon, papa, do not you think it will ? And oh, father, read this; here is something about a flying chariot, which we did not hear: ' Or on wide-waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.' " His father had purposely omitted to read these, and prudently declined giving his opinion.