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Show I 32 J Seiz' d by the throat the growling fiend difartns, And tears his gaping jaws with finewy arms ; Lifts proud ANTEUS fro1n his mother-plains, And with fl:rong grafp the flruggling Giant firains; Back falls his fainting head, and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flits his life in air ;- 3 2~ By fteps reverted o'er the blood-dropp' d fen He tracks huge CAcus to his murderous den; Where, breathing flatnes through brazen lips, he fled, And fhakes the rock-roof d cavern o, er his head .. '' Laft with wide anns the folid earth He tears, 3 2 5 Piles rock on rock, on mountain Inountain rears ; Heaves up huge ABYLA on Afric's fand, Crowns with high CALPk Europe's faliant :fl:rand, Crefis with oppofing towers the fplendid fcene, Anrl pours frorn urns immenfe the fea between.- 3 3 o -Loud o'er her whirling Rood Charybdis roars, Affri,ghted Scylla bellows round his fhores, [ 33 ] Vefuvio groans through all his echoing caves, And Etna thunders o'er the infurgent waves. VII. 1. ''NYMPHs! YOUR fine hands ethereal floods amafs From the warm cuihion, and the whirling glafs; 3 36 Beard the bright cylinder with golden wire, And circumfufe the gravitating fire. Cold from each point cerulean luil:res glea1n, Or {hoot in air the fcintillating fiream. So borne on brazen talons, watch' d of old ' The £1eeplefs dragon o'er his fruits of gold ; Ethereal floods amajs. 1. 335· The theory of the accumulation of the eleetri~ ~ui~ by means of the glafs-globe and cufhion is difficult to comprehend. Dr. Frankltn s 1dea of the pores of the glafs being opened by the frictior~, and thence rendered capable. of attranu·m g more e Jeln..L ric fluid , which it again parts w1th, as th• e p•o res contraCl: aga•1 n, r. logotiS '1I1 r.0me meafure to the heat produced by the v1bratton, or condenfauon 1eems ana 1' . . .J o f b o d1. es, as w 1K n a nail is hammered or filed tiJl it becomes hot, as mentwned . m au- dt·t ·lO na 1 N otes , N o. Vl [ · Some philofophers have en.d eavo. ured t.o account for tl11s phe-nomenon b y f nppo {i1 11 g the exiflence of two eleCln c fluids whi ch may be called t•h ~ V·I treous an d 1.C f'1 110US on-". s , infl:ead of the plus and min.u s of the fam.e ether. fl11t Its acc11m11 I at·w n on t h e r ubbed glafs bea• rs great an::t!oto:> y• to Its :~ccumulatton on the furf•a ce of the L eyden bottle, and can· not perhaps be explamed fro.m any known mechanical or c 11 em1· ca 1 pn·n c·i p !e · See note on Gymnotus. 1. 202, of tim Canto. Cold from eacb point. l. 339· See additional note, No. XIII. H~R~l. ~ |
