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Page 88 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Page 154 - at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect for the memory of that man.
Page 73 - ... the egg, and endeavouring by the action of your hands and feet against the water to get forward till within reach of it In this attempt you will find that the water buoys you up against your inclination ; that it is not so easy to sink as you imagine, and that you cannot but by active force get down to the egg.
Page 222 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies; Till the dappled dawn doth rise: Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And, at my window, bid
Page 159 - ... case, very little bigger than a breakfast tea-cup; but a clumsy neighbour one day looking at my watch, happened to let it fall, and turning hastily about to pick it up, set his foot upon it, and crushed it all to pieces; which so provoked my father, that he was almost ready to beat the man, and discouraged me so much, that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.
Page 73 - To encourage yourself in order to do this, reflect that your progress will be from deeper to shallower water, and that at any time you may, by bringing your legs under you, and standing on the bottom, raise your head far above the water.
Page 157 - ... to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Page 71 - If therefore a person, unacquainted with swimming and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body take this natural position, he might continue long safe from drowning till perhaps help would come.
Page 259 - Ten thousand stars adorn her gHtt'ring train, Fall when she falls, and rise with her again ; And o'er the deserts of the sky unfold Their burning spangles of sidereal gold : Through the wide heav'ns she moves serenely bright, Queen of the gay attendants of the night ; Orb above orb in sweet confusion lies, And with a bright disorder paints the skies.
Page 258 - Array'd in glory, and enthron'd in light, She breaks the solemn terrors of the night ; Sweetly inconstant in her varying flame, She changes still, — another, yet the same! Now in decrease by slow degrees she shrouds Her fading lustre in a veil of clouds ; Now of increase, her gathering beams display A blaze of light, and give a paler day.