So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]

In this context, it is worth remark that Sir Brian should have paid particular attention to the importance of a reserve of power in locomotives. He adverted to this in a discussion of punctuality, making first the highly debatable assertion that a very high proportion of steam locomotives today were being worked to the limit of their capacity, with little or no reserve in hand, ….

The pseudoisochromatic stimuli comprised a mosaic of circles with different sizes (0.2 to 0.6° of diameter) and different luminance (12 to 20 cd/m 2 ) that formed target and field embedded in a dark background (0.02 cd/m 2 ).

I long to be one with the birds and trees and with the green earth. The call comes to me from the air to sing, but, wretched creature that I am, I lecture—and by doing it, I ostracise myself from this great world of songs to which I was born.