| 1801 - 606 Seiten
...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 triumphant, leaning from above,... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 224 Seiten
...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, leaning from above, Shall wave their... | |
| Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Parkes - 1814 - 584 Seiten
...purposes, of which at present we have no idea. In America vessels are already navigated by 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." — DAEWIK. The steam-engine,... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 406 Seiten
...disordered imagination when he exclaimed, " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar " Drag (he slow barge or drive the rapid car, " Or on wide-waving...flying chariot through the fields of air."* * Darwin. " The connexion between Livingston and Fulton realized, to a great degree, the vision of the poet.... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 Seiten
..." 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.... | |
| Samuel Parkes - 1818 - 616 Seiten
...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." DARWIN. The steam engine, approaching to the nature of a pr. rpe.luum mobile, or rather an animal, is incapable... | |
| 1827 - 452 Seiten
...shall thine arm, unconquer'd steam, afar, the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. Or on wide waring wings, expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air." Darwin. The London newspapers, alluding to the disastrous effects of the late gale, observe, that it afforded... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 Seiten
...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...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air." Darni*. Illustrated by Thirteen Engravings and Diagrams. Ztonoon : PRINTED FOR J. TAYLOR, AT THE ARCHITECTURAL... | |
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