| Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 Seiten
...Garden," in which the poet, among some predictions, not yet verified, has this remarkable one : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the...rapid car ! Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air." Bisset thus pays his tribute to the same inspiring theme... | |
| Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 Seiten
...Garden," in which the poet, among some predictions, not yet verified, has this remarkable one : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ! Or on wide- waving wings expanded hear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air." Bisset thus pays his... | |
| Willis's Current notes - 1853 - 112 Seiten
...178.0, but written, it is well 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 crews triumphant... | |
| George Willis - 1853 - 322 Seiten
...1789, but written, it is well 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 crews triumphant... | |
| George Willis - 1853 - 114 Seiten
...known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : " Soon shall thy arm, unconqucr'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... | |
| William Keddie - 1854 - 400 Seiten
...occurs the following prediction respecting steam : — ' Soon shall thy steam, afar arm, unconquer'd Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or, on...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or... | |
| 1854 - 778 Seiten
...the more obvious purposes of mine drainage and the like, Darwin, in his Botanic Garden, wrote — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." And in an appended note prophecies that the new agent might " in time be applied to the rowing of barges,... | |
| John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 408 Seiten
...the influence of a disordered imagination when he exclaimed : " ' Soon shall thy arm, unconojuer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air !' " The connexion between Livingston and Fulton realized, to a great degree, the vision of the poet.... | |
| John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...country. " 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 car j Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air !' " The connexion... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 Seiten
...and the Lion join, And George and Britain guard the sterling coin. Soon shall thy arm,4 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. Darwin. ANCIENT BRITAIN.... | |
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