 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 530 sivua
...his prophecy, published in 1791, before any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 448 sivua
...Garden, first published in 1789, but written it is known at least twenty years before it was published : 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 524 sivua
...his prophecy, published in 1791, before any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered 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. Fair crews... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 sivua
...publication, occurs the following prediction respecting Steam : — " 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 crews triumphant... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1861 - 580 sivua
...plan in 1784, that Darwin wrote those well-known lines in the Botanic Garden :— 'Soon shall thine arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.' As it is only with the early foreshadowings of modern inventions that we are concerned, we pursue the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 520 sivua
...any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered sieimi, 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,... | |
 | 1869 - 514 sivua
...sufficiently indicative of the Doctor's poetic conception of this subject : " Boon 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. Fair crews triumphant... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1869 - 552 sivua
...navigation. The poet Darwin, shortly before, in the spirit of prophecy, had written, " Soon shall tby arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car," — and Fulton resolved to bring the prophecy to pass. FULTON'S GREAT INVENTION. 337 FOLTON'S CLEHMONT.... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1870 - 424 sivua
...(long before Fulton's day,) could have appeared more chimerical than this couplet of Darwin's — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; " — Keats poured out beautiful and true poetry, to which, in Wilsonian language, " angels, suspending... | |
 | George Pryme - 1870 - 432 sivua
...be applied to the rowing of barges, and the moving of carriages along the Road1." " Soon shall thine arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." Stuart Mill says, "hitherto it is a question if all the inventions yet made have lightened the day's... | |
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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... 
