noon
So , by looking and by not looking , he achieves his phantom victory -- embraces his cloud . Dr. Shrapnel conceived that the day was to be a Radical success ; and he , a citizen aged and exercised in reverses , so rounded by the habit of them indeed as to tumble and recover himself on the wind of the blow that struck him , was , it must be acknowledged , staggered and cast down when he saw Beauchamp drop , knowing full well his regiment had polled to a man . Radicals poll early ; they would poll at cockcrow if they might ; they dance on the morning . As for their chagrin at noon , you will find descriptions of it in the poet 's Inferno . They are for lifting our clay soil on a lever of Archimedes , and are not great mathematicians . They have perchance a foot of our earth , and perpetually do they seem to be producing an effect , perpetually does the whole land roll back on them . You have not surely to be reminded that it hurts them ; the weight is immense .