 | 1801 - Страниц: 606
...Icaft merit is, that pofterior difcoveries feem to be fail realifing the predictions of the poet : " Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUERED STEAM ! afar " Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; • " Or on wide-waving wings, expanded, bear " Thy flying chariot through the fields of air. < " —... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1828 - Страниц: 474
...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.... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 336
...their poetical enthusiasm, and prophetic truth, and predicted the future triumph of the steam-engine. " 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... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 336
...poetical enthusiasm, and prophetic truth, and predicted the future triumph of the sjfeam-engine. " 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... | |
 | William Matthews - 1835 - Страниц: 522
...vision would be nearly realized, by the velocity of motion effected on rivers and rail-roads : — " 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," " If the channel... | |
 | William Matthews - 1835 - Страниц: 564
...vision would be nearly realized, by the velocity of motion effected on rivers and rail-roads : — " 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." " If the channel... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - Страниц: 274
...more than forty years ago, predicted the triumphs of the steam-engine, in the following strains : " 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... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 660
...MAGAZINE. NAVAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. THIRD NOTICE. STEAM NAVIGATION. Soon shall thy aim, 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. WHEN Darwin... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1884 - Страниц: 1168
...1791, Erasmus Darwin, in his " Botanic Garden," a poem too little read, had exclaimed in the well-known lines, — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, and urge the flying car." The fame of the elder Darwin has been eclipsed by his younger relative ;... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Страниц: 390
...threw down his bookat saying, " With oil 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 car; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot — through the fields of air. Fhe brave... | |
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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... 
