The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 113
« Wy) ¥ a ra. Lopee’ : 0 ree "eget ~ oF OPTICAL AM … What wonders may be brought to pass, By the optician’s magic glass ! A barley-corn of painted paper, Iilumin’d by a farthing taper, Into a spacious plain extendeth, Whereon Dan Sol his hot glance bendeth. The leech’s paltry, dark green potion Is magnified into an ocean: His little, crabb’d,…
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