Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826 [1797], The Algerine captive, or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines, volume 1 (, Walpole, NH) [word count] [eaf407v1].
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CHAP. X.
Was Milton blind, who pierc'd the gloom profound
Of lowe&longs;t Hades, thro' &longs;even fold night
Of &longs;hade, with &longs;hade compact, &longs;aw the arch fiend
From caves, and aby&longs;s,
Collect in clo&longs;e divan, his fierce compeers:
Or, with the mental eye, thro' awful clouds,
And darkne&longs;s thick, unveil'd the throne of him,
Who&longs;e vengeful thunder &longs;mote the rebel fiend?
Was Sander&longs;on, who to the &longs;eeing crowd
Of wond'ring pupils taught, &longs;ightle&longs;s him&longs;elf,
The wond'rous &longs;tructure of the human eye?
Author's Manu&longs;cript Poems.
ARGUMENT.
Anecdotes of the celebrated Doctor Moyes.
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Mentioning the &longs;ubject
of the la&longs;t chapter, to the celebrated Doctor
Moyes, who, though blind, delivered
a lecture upon optics, and delineated the
properties of light and &longs;hade, to the
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Bostonians, in the year one thou&longs;and &longs;even hundred
and eighty five; he exhibited a more
a&longs;toni&longs;hing illu&longs;tration of the power of the
touch. A highly poli&longs;hed plane of &longs;teel
was pre&longs;ented to him, with a &longs;troke of an
etching tool, &longs;o minutely engraved upon
it, that it was invi&longs;ible to the naked eye,
and only di&longs;coverable with a powerful
magnifying gla&longs;s; with his fingers he discovered
the extent, and mea&longs;ured the
length of the line.
This gentleman lo&longs;t his &longs;ight, at three
years of age. He informed me, that being
overturned, in a &longs;tage coach, one dark
rainy evening, in England, when the
carriage, and four hor&longs;es, were thrown into
a ditch, the pa&longs;&longs;engers and driver, with
two eyes a piece, were obliged to apply
to him, who had none, for a&longs;&longs;i&longs;tance, in
extricating the hor&longs;es. As for me, &longs;aid
he, after I had recovered from the astonishment
of the fall, and di&longs;covered that I
had e&longs;caped unhurt, I was quite at home
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in the dark ditch. The inver&longs;ion of the
order of things was amu&longs;ing. I, that was
obliged to be led like a child, in the glaring
&longs;un, was now directing eight per&longs;ons,
to pull here, and haul there, with all the
dexterity and activity of a man of war's
boat&longs;wain.
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Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826 [1797], The Algerine captive, or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines, volume 1 (, Walpole, NH) [word count] [eaf407v1].
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