 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 sivua
...day-dreams which had been promulgated by Dr. Darwin so early as 1793 : — " 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." Botanic Garden, Canto... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 106 sivua
......................... xlvii. How to carry out a Railway .......... li. 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,... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 192 sivua
...The Electric Clock . .• xvii. L. EUSTON SQUARE STATION. TRAM-ROADS AND RAILWAYS. INTRODUCTION. Boon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear, The flyingrchariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant,... | |
 | English poets - 1847 - 144 sivua
...in the first couplet. Will that in the second ever be realized ? " 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." But this popularity... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1847 - 444 sivua
...were printed in 1 795, when the steam engine was in its infancy : — 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 field of air ! The latter part of the... | |
 | Charles Foote Gower - 1847 - 208 sivua
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 sivua
...it was considered a vaticinal 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 - 876 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 874 sivua
...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 - 208 sivua
...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... | |
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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... 
