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Electricity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

For the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. C.— T. B. ALDRICH — Before the Rain.

The earth is rocking, the skies are riven- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.— ROBERT BUCHANAN — Horatius Cogitandibus. St. 16.

Stretches, for leagues and leagues, the Wire, A hidden path for a Child of Fire- Over its silent spaces sent, Swifter than Ariel ever went, From continent to continent.— WM. HENRY BURLEIGH — The Rhyme

of the Cable. Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 23.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we dreamed it.— NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE — The House

of the Seven Gables. The Flight of Two Owls. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 144.

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say "It lightens."— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 119.