| Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - Počet stránok 224
...balanced beam of giant-birth, "Wields his large limbs, and, nodding, shakes the earth. The giant-power from earth's remotest caves Lifts with strong arm...dark reluctant waves; Each cavern'd rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores.— Next, in close cells of ribbed oak... | |
| Anne Plumptre - 1817 - Počet stránok 452
...burst in from the lake. By means of the steam-engine, " That giant power, which from earth's deepest caves Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves, Each cavern'd rock and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coal, and digs her shining ores : — " by means of this giant-power the... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - Počet stránok 246
...balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth. " The giant-power from earth's remotest caves Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves; r.nrb cavern'd rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. Next,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - Počet stránok 316
...him, who ' Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop.9 Who was that, Lucy?" cold water upon it to condense...Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores." ging the coal waggons, as Harry told me it could." Her father went on reading : — " Next in close... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - Počet stránok 414
...ponderous air, the piston falls, Resistless sliding through its iron walls, Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields its large limbs, and,...power, from earth's remotest caves, Lifts with strong ami her dark, reluctant waves, Kach caverned rock and hidden depth explores, Drags her dark coals,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - Počet stránok 484
...Resistless, sliding through its iron walls ; Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth. " The giant...Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves ; Each caverned rock and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. Next, in close... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - Počet stránok 490
...lightnings glow, And hears innocuous thunders roar below. Darwin. THE POWER OF STEAM.2 THE giant-power, from earth's remotest caves, Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves ; Each caverned rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. Next, in close... | |
| 1846 - Počet stránok 620
...balance-beam of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and, nodding, shakes the earth. The giant-power from earth's remotest caves Lifts, with strong arm,...dark reluctant waves ; Each cavern'd rock and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. Next, in close cells of ribbed oak confined,... | |
| Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - Počet stránok 310
...steam-engine, after a suitable apostrophe to Savery, one of its first inventors :— " The Giant-Power from earth's remotest caves, Lifts with strong arm...dark reluctant waves ; Each cavern'd rock, and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. — Next, in close cells of ribbed oak... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - Počet stránok 580
...balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his largo limbs, and nodding shakes the earth. " The pant iiower from earth's remotest caves Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves; Each caverned rock and hidden den explores, Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining ores. Next, in close... | |
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