Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early LessonsR. Hunter, 72, St. Paul's Churchyard ; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row, 1827 - 354 pages |
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Page 178 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.
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 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 178 - ... employed in driving forward vessels on the water. This prophecy, at the time it was made, most people thought merely poetical; and instead of expecting that it would be soon accomplished, it was thought that it would never be effected:— "' Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.
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 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 175 - 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 174 - Each cavern'd rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores.
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 92 - ... again thought of the man who had talked prose all his life, without knowing it; but she refrained from making an allusion to him, though it was ready on her lips. Harry recalled to her mind the experiments which their father had shown them two years ago. " Do not you remember," said he, " the experiment he showed us, with a roll of tape that was put under a wine glass, which was turned down, and plunged into a bason of water ; and then the tape was pulled out, and unrolled by degrees?