 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
 | Christianity - 1880 - 304 páginas
...than the utterance of the Roman poet. Celebrating the powers of steam, Dr. Erasmus Darwin says— " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." As this was written before the application of steam to the propelling of vessels had come into use,... | |
 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1881 - 672 páginas
...the man who is to fulfil Darwin's prophecy, closing the stanza : " Soon 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." The quotation may excite... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...the triumphs of steam in these prescient lines: " Soon thitll thy nrm, unconqnercd Stenm ! afar Drug ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath fou wlnga expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air." By his command of poetical diction... | |
 | Robert Lindsay Galloway - 1882 - 336 páginas
...XVII. EXTENDED USE OF THE STEAM-ENGINE; THE LOGOMOTIVE; STEAMBOATS. — INTRODUCTION OF GASLIGHTING. " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." — DAKWIN. WE have seen that the chief use to which the steamengine was put for a long period subsequent... | |
 | Robert Lindsay Galloway - 1882 - 338 páginas
...XVII. EXTENDED USE OF THE STEAM-ENGINE; THE LOCOMOTIVE; STEAMBOATS. — INTRODUCTION OF GASLIGHTING. " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." —DARWIN. WE have seen that the chief use to which the steamengine was put for a long period subsequent... | |
 | 1917 - 678 páginas
...the following verses from his " Economy of Vegetation," Canto I.: Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQDER '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. And again in a footnote:... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 672 páginas
...following verses from his " Economy of Vegetation," Canto I.: Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER 'D STEAM I 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. And again in a footnote:... | |
 | Richard Pike - 1884 - 318 páginas
...RAILWAY ADVENTURES ' ' AND ANECDOTES: Extending over more than Fifty Years. EDITED BY RICHARD PIKE. "Soon shall thy arm unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." — Dr. Dancin'a Botanic Gnrdent 1789. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND co. NOTTINGHAM : J. DERRY. 1884.... | |
 | Richard Pike - 1884 - 304 páginas
...BI RAILWAY ADVENTURES AND ANECD0TES: Extending over more than Fifty Years. EDITED BY RICHARD PIKE. ; Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." —Dr. DarwMs Satanic Garden, 1789. LO3JDON : HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. NOTTINGHAM : J. DERRY. 1884.... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 páginas
...prophetic truth. They predicted the future triumph of the ."team engine. " Soon shall thy Arm, uuconqucred steam, afar. Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car, Or on the wide waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; Fair crews triumphant,... | |
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