 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 - Pagina 2641863Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Darnell - 1865 - 96 pagina’s
...WHOLE. Censure is the tax which a man pays the public for being eminent. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. The horse being troubled with a fly... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pagina’s
...STEAMBOAT. 825 Or on wide waving wing 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." 2. What would he have said, if he had but lived to witness... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 454 pagina’s
...written it is known at least twenty years before it was published : Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 240 pagina’s
...publication, occurs the following prediction respecting Steam : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air,* Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 522 pagina’s
...eteam-boat had been invented : CHAP. I.] DR. DARWIN'S PROPHECY. 59 " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their flutt'ring kerchiefs as they move; Or warrior... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - 572 pagina’s
...poetry and prophecy, he published as early as 1793: — • Soon shall thy arm, wncouquer'd Steam I afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ;...wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot thro' the fields of air !' — Botanic Garden, Cant. i. 253-289. * Savery is generally slated to have... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith - 1985 - 582 pagina’s
...pp. 95-8). 11 Darwin 1791 (pp. 29-30), Pt 1, Canto I, lines 289-96: 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 crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave... | |
 | Georg Kohlmaier, Barna von Sartory - 1991 - 666 pagina’s
...— ^ — JLJ .h-, J-^L Steam, Iron, and the Industrial Revolution Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. —Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchieft as they move; Or... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pagina’s
...and has been the cause of all organic life? Zoonomia 1794, I, 511 19 Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam: afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. The Botanic Garden I, i, 289 20 Would it be too bold to imagine that in the great lengths... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1998 - 182 pagina’s
...Venice was besieged by Radetzky! But, take the passage from Darwin. "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,... | |
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