INVENTION.
Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the field of air.
The Botanic Garden, Pt. 1. Ch. I. [1781]. E. DARWIN.
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old régime.
And, spite of Lemprière's dazzling page,
I'd give—though it might seem bold—
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.
The Two Ages. H.S. LEIGH.
What cannot art and industry perform,
When science plans the progress of their toil!
The Minstrel. J. BEATTIE.
For out of the old fieldès, as men saithe,
Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere,
And out of old bookès, in good faithe,
Cometh al this new science that men lere.
The Assembly of Foules. CHAUCER.
JEALOUSY.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on….
But, O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Trifle, light as air,
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
With groundless fear he thus his soul deceives:
What phrenzy dictates, jealousy believes.
Diome. J. GAY.
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
Paradise Lost, Bk. V. MILTON.