The Turks arriv’d at their amazing Grandeur from ſo obſcure an Origin, that the invaded World ſtood wondering at their Growing Fortunes, while they ſhou’d have endeavour’d to repulſe, by a vigorous Oppoſition, the bold Incurſions of their encroaching Numbers. And then the Dragons arriv’d. (“A Full and Juſt Account of the Preſent State of the Ottoman Empire in All Its Branches: with the Government, and Policy, Religion, Cuſtoms, and Way of Living of the Turks, in General. faithfully related From a Serious OBSERVATION, taken in many Years TRAVELS thro’ thoſe Countries”, by Aaron Hill, Gent., 1709.)
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A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir. Estragon:[Giving up again.] Nothing to be done. Dragons arrive.
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. And then the dragons arrived.