v. 



CANTO iv. OF GOOD AND EVIL. 149 



" Inspired by thee, with scientific wand 

 Pleased ARCHIMEDES mark'd the figured sand; 

 Siezed with mechanic grasp the approaching decks, 

 And shook the assailants from the inverted wrecks. 

 Then cried the Sage, with grand effects elate, 

 And proud to save the Syracusian state; 

 While crowds exulting shout their noisy mirth, 

 * Give where to stand, and I will move the earth.' 

 So SAVERY guided his explosive steam 

 In iron cells to raise the balanced beam; 250 



The Giant-form its ponderous mass uprears, 

 Descending nods and seems to shake the spheres. 



Mark'd thejlgur'd sand, 1. 242. The ancient orators seem to have 

 spoken disrespectfully of the mechanic philosophers. Cicero men- 

 tioning Archimedes, calls him Homunculus e pulvere et radio, allud- 

 ing to the custom of drawing problems on the sand with a staff. 



So Savery guided, 1. 249. Captain Savery first applied the pressure 

 of the atmosphere to raise water in consequence of a vacuum pre- 

 viously produced by the condensation of steam, though the Marquis 

 of Worceser had before proposed to use for this purpose the expan- 

 sive power of steam; see Botanic Garden, Vol. I. Canto I. 1. 253. 

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