 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 - Sida 2641863Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Foote Gower - 1847 - 208 sidor
...the various changes of colour. CHAPTER III. THE BREAKFAST-PARLOUK. " Soon shall thy arm, uneonqnered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot throngh the ficlds of air."— DARW1N. THE prophetic... | |
 | 1848 - 876 sidor
...fulfilled, should yet receive their fulfilment in the regions of air : — ' Soon shall thy arm. nnconqucred steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving wintrs expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.' The steam-engine being thus apparently... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 sidor
...spirit, scarcely allowable even in poetry, for Dr. Darwin to write : " 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." The prophecy, however,... | |
 | 1848 - 874 sidor
...should yet receive their fulfilment in the regions of air : — 'Soon shall thy arm, unconquered sleam ! 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 steam-engioc being... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 252 sidor
...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 their...move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud: So mighty Hercules o'er many a clime Waved his huge mace in... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 208 sidor
...known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : " 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 crewa triumphant... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 sidor
...Electric Clock ------ XXII. TRAM-ROADS AND RAILWAYS. INTRODUCTION. 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, leaning from above, Shall wave their... | |
 | J. Davy - 1851 - 326 sidor
...distinguished poet foretold its success in the following beautiful manner : " 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 chariots through the fields of air." Where was Robert Fulton... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 sidor
...fallacy of attending to the hits and overlooking the misses. (27) ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.' Darwin's Economy of Vegetation, canto i. ' There is reason to believe it may in time be applied to... | |
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 sidor
...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 their...move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud : So mighty Hercules o'er many a clime Waved his huge mace... | |
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