 NYMPHS! you erewhile on simmering caldrons 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...  Birmingham: a poem - Page 274by Harry Howells Horton - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Aston - 1804 - 310 pages
...receive their motion from that valuable discovery the steam engine.* In these " Press'd by the pond'rons air, the piston falls " Resistless, sliding through its iron walls ; " Quick moves the balanc'd beam of giant birth, " \VicUs his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth." [DARWIN'S BOTANIC... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 224 pages
...Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapor to a drop.— Prest by the ponderous air the piston falls Resistless,...its iron walls ; Quick moves the balanced beam of giant-birth, "Wields his large limbs, and, nodding, shakes the earth. The giant-power from earth's... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1809 - 384 pages
...Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, " And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop. — " Press'd by the ponderous air the piston falls, " Resistless,...sliding through its iron walls : " Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant-birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth." The unceasing... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 680 pages
...pond'rous air the piston tails Resistless sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth. Emma. I remember the lines very wel}.will you describe the engine, that we may see how they apply ?... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 pages
...streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk th' immense of vapour to a drop. Press'd with the pond'rous air the piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant birth. Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the 1 earth. Emma. I remember... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 446 pages
...streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop. Press'd with the pond'rous air the piston falls Resistless sliding through its iron walls ; Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth. F.mma. I remember... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pages
...fire ; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapours to a drop. — Press'd by the ponderous air the piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls ; 260 Qaiok moves the balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 662 pages
...go on reading, papa," said Lucy. " I like those lines so much." Her father continued : — " Pressed by the ponderous air, the piston falls, Resistless sliding through its iron walls, Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant birth, Wields its large limbs, and, nodding, shakes the earth ; The giant power,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 316 pages
...go on reading, papa," said Lucy. " I like those lines so much." Her father continued : — " Pressed by the ponderous air, the piston falls, Resistless sliding through its iron walls, Quick moves the balanc'd beam, of giant birth, Wields its large limbs, and, nodding, shakes the earth ; The giant power,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1828 - 280 pages
...streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk th' immense of vapour to a drop. Press'd with the pond'rous air the piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves tlie balanu'd beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, aud nodding shakes the earth. Emma. I remember... | |
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