Harry and Lucy Concluded;: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volume 1R. Hunter, ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 - 354 pages |
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Page 23 - 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 133 - 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 272 - Magdalena, can scarcely conceive, how without interruption, at every instant of life, you may be tormented by insects flying in the air, and how the multitude of these little animals may render vast regions almost uninhabitable.
Page 178 - 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.
Page 133 - 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 279 - 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 176 - 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 dies of steel the cupreous circles cramp, And with quick fall His massy hammers stamp. The harp, the lily, and the lion join, And GEORGE and BRITAIN guard the sterling coin.
Page viii - Harry and Lucy was begun by my father, above fifty years ago, for the use of his own family, and published at a time when no one of any literary character, excepting Dr. Watts and Mrs. Barbauld, had ever condescended to write for children. That little book was, I believe, the very first attempt to give any correct elementary knowledge or taste for science in a narrative suited to the comprehension of children, and calculated to amuse and interest, as well as to instruct.
Page 175 - Fan the white flame, and fuse the sparkling ore. 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 173 - NYMPHS ! you erewhile on simmering cauldrons play'd, And call'd delighted Savery to your aid ; Bade round the youth explosive steam aspire In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire ; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop.