| 1801 - 606 páginas
...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. < " — Fair ctews... | |
| Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 páginas
...capital invention of modern times, the steamengine, is worked ! Soon shall thine arm, UNCONQLUER'D 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. ]*air crews, triumphant leaning from above, Shall... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 224 páginas
...cupreous circles cramp, And with quick fall his massy hammers stamp. Soon shall thy arm, unconguer'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 crews triumphant,... | |
| Samuel Parkes - 1807 - 382 páginas
...vessels an? :U'e.idy navigated by steam. «« ' :W " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar ijt Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car, Or on wide waving wings expanded bear id The flying chariot thiough the fields of air." " ' it has become an useful and powerful agent... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 páginas
...should anticipate the still farther extension of this useful power : — Soon shall thy arm, uncanquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying charriol through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 páginas
..." The poet was considered under the influence of a disordered imagination when he exclaimed, •• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd 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."* » Darwin.... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 páginas
...CHARLES FREDERICK PARTINGTON, A OF THE LONDON INSTITUTION. Cl » C • " Soon shall thy arm, unconquerM 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." Darni*. Illustrated... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 páginas
...hammers stamp. The Harp, the Lily and the Lion join, And George and Britain guard the sterling coin. " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; 290 Or on wide- waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air. — Fair crews... | |
| 1825 - 428 páginas
...the transport of persons or merchandize U is proposed to supersede entirely the necessity of horse 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. power in all public wagons,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 324 páginas
...expecting that it would be soon accomplished, it was thought that it would never be effected : — ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.'" " The slow barge now goes as fast as you please," said Harry. " The rapid car is to come ; and I dare... | |
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