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Show [ 146 ] In iron cells condenfed the airy fpring, And imp' d the torrent with unfailing wing; -On the fierce flames the 1hower i1npetuous falls, And fudden darknefs 1hrouds the ihatter'd walls; 410 Steam, fmoak,. and duft, in blended volumes roll, And Night and Silence repoffefs the Pole.-- '' Where were ye, NYMPHs! in thofe difafl:erous hours, Which wrap'd in flames AuGUSTA's linking towers? Why did ye linger in your wells and groves, 4 r 5 When fad W ooDMASON mourn' d her infant loves ? is now applied to Gmilar engines for walhing wall-trees in gardens, and to all kinds of ~orcing pumps, and might be applied with advantage to lifting pumps where the water IS brought from a great dil1ance horizontally, Another kind of machine was invented by one Grey!, in_ wh_ich a veffel of water was every way difperfed by the explofion of ?on-powder lodging m the centre of it, and lighted by an adapted match; from this Idea Mr. Godfrey propofed a water-bomb of fimilar connru.ni·on Dr II 1 t • 11 ~.:.t • • a es o prevent the fpreadwg of fire propofed to cover the floors and fiairs of the adjoining houfes with ea~th ~ ~~ · Hartley propofed to prevent houfes from taking fire by covering the cieling With ~hr_n !ron-plates, and ~ord Mahon by a bed of coarfe mortar or plaificr between the Cielmg. a~d ~oor above It. May not this age of chemical fcience difcover fome m~thod of InJeClmg or foaking timber with lime-water and afterwards with vitriolic acid, and thus fill its pores with alabafier? or of penetrating it with filiceous matter by p•oceffes fimilar to thofe of Bergman and Achard? See Cronfiedt' M' 1 d d. ' Vol. I. P· 222 , s mera . 2 , e rt. Wood~ajon, Molefworth. 1. 416. The hifl:ories of thefe unfortun:~te families may be feen 111 the Annual Regifl:er, or in the Gentleman's M.agazine. ( I 4 7 ) When thy fair Daughters with unheeded fcreatns, Ill-fated Mot ESWOR TH! call' d the loitering fl:rcams ?The trembling Nytnph, on b~oodlefs fingers hung, Eyes fron1 the tottering wall the diD.:ant throng, 420 With ceafelcfs fhrieks her Dceping friends alartns, Drops with finged hair into her lover's anns.-- The illumin' d Mother feeks with footfieps fleet, Where hangs the fafe balcony o'er the .fireet, Wrap'd in her £heet her youngeR hope fufpencls, And panting lowers it to her tiptoe friends; Again £he hurries on affeCtion's wings, And now a third, and now a fourth, fue brings; Safe all her babes, £he f1nooths her horrent brow, And burfis through bickering flames, unfcorch' d, below. So, by her Son arraigned, with feet unihod O'er burning bars indignant Emma trod. " E'en on the day when Youth with Beauty wed, The fla1nes furprifed thetn in their nuptial bed;- Uz 431 |