 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...  Willis's Current notes - Página 87por Willis's Current notes - 1853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 520 páginas
...any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered sieimi, 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 páginas
...Steam-power which havo been singularly verified. In Dr. Darwin's Botanic Garden, first published in 1789, but written, it is well known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication, occurs the following prediction respecting steam : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag... | |
 | 1869 - 514 páginas
...sufficiently indicative of the Doctor's poetic conception of this subject : " Boon shall thy arm, unconqnered 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 páginas
...and prophetic truth, and predicted the future triumph of the steam"Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wing expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air : Fair crews triumphant, leaning from... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 552 páginas
...Darwin, in his 'Botanic Garden' (1781), has the following prophecy : — Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered 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. Darwin's contemporaries,... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 páginas
...themselves upon their speed, could have read (with some approach to second-sight) Dr. Darwin's lines — " 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." The slow barge now traverses... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 432 páginas
...themselves upon their speed, could have read (with some approach to second-sight) Dr. Darwin's lines — " 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." The slow barge now traverses... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 452 páginas
...themselves upon their speed, could have read (with some approach to second-sight) Dr. Darwin's lines— " 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." The slow barge now traverses... | |
 | 1875 - 822 páginas
...to locomotion of any kind, uttered the well-known prediction — ' 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 !' Two-thirds of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 646 páginas
...applied to locomotion of any kind, uttered the wellknown prediction — ' 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 ! ' Two-thirds of... | |
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