 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1828 - 474 páginas
...very generally adopted. I remain, Sir, Your's, 4c. CALORIC. Bath, Jot». 12, 1828. STEAM CARRIAGES. " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid eer; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.». DABWIN.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 páginas
...threw down his books, saying, " With all my learning, I should never have found out that expedient." Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam .' afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid гаг ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying cAan'oi — through the fields of air.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 páginas
...threw down his ôoofc?, paying, " With all my learning, I should never have found out that expedient." Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ' afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid rar ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot— through the fields of air. Hie... | |
 | 1845 - 550 páginas
...parodies on the Canticles. But we are now only referring to the fine and truly prophetic verses on Steam. Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or urge the rapid car ! So mighty Hercules o'er many a clime Waved his vast mace in virtue's cause sublime,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 páginas
...later plan in 1784, that Darwin wrote those well-known lines in the Botanic Garden : "Soon shall thine arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." As it is only with the early foreshadowings of modern inventions that we are concerned, we pursue the... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1864 - 504 páginas
...employbig it in navigation. The poet Darwin, shortly before, in the spirit of prophecy, had written, " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car," — and Fulton resolved to bring the prophecy to pass. FULTON'S GEEAT INVENTION. 337 nrLTON'8 CLERMONT.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 524 páginas
...his prophecy, published in 1791, before any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid ear ; Or on wide- waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1861 - 580 páginas
...plan in 1784, that Darwin wrote those well-known lines in the Botanic Garden :— 'Soon shall thine arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.' As it is only with the early foreshadowings of modern inventions that we are concerned, we pursue the... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1869 - 552 páginas
...navigation. The poet Darwin, shortly before, in the spirit of prophecy, had written, " Soon shall tby arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car," — and Fulton resolved to bring the prophecy to pass. FULTON'S GREAT INVENTION. 337 FOLTON'S CLEHMONT.... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1870 - 424 páginas
...(long before Fulton's day,) could have appeared more chimerical than this couplet of Darwin's — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; " — Keats poured out beautiful and true poetry, to which, in Wilsonian language, " angels, suspending... | |
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