 Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...  Notes and Queries - Page 2641863Full view - About this book
 | Edward Jesse - 1847 - 444 lehte
...were printed in 1 795, when the steam engine was in its infancy : — Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car, Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air ! The latter part of the... | |
 | Charles Foote Gower - 1847 - 208 lehte
...the various changes of colour. CHAPTER III. THE BREAKFAST-PARLOUK. " Soon shall thy arm, uneonqnered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot throngh the ficlds of air."— DARW1N. THE prophetic... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1848 - 306 lehte
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 | 1848 - 876 lehte
...fulfilled, should yet receive their fulfilment in the regions of air : — ' Soon shall thy arm. nnconqucred steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving wintrs expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.' The steam-engine being thus apparently... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 lehte
...spirit, scarcely allowable even in poetry, for Dr. Darwin to write : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or, on wide waving wings, expanded bear The flying chariot, through the fields of air." The prophecy, however,... | |
 | 1848 - 874 lehte
...should yet receive their fulfilment in the regions of air : — 'Soon shall thy arm, unconquered sleam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide- waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air." The steam-engioc being... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 252 lehte
...rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant leaning from above Shall wave their...move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud: So mighty Hercules o'er many a clime Waved his huge mace in... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 208 lehte
...known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar, Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crewa triumphant... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 lehte
...Electric Clock ------ XXII. TRAM-ROADS AND RAILWAYS. INTRODUCTION. Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear, The flying-chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their... | |
 | J. Davy - 1851 - 326 lehte
...distinguished poet foretold its success in the following beautiful manner : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or. on wide waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariots through the fields of air." Where was Robert Fulton... | |
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