 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 2641863Full view - About this book
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 pages
...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 bear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air." Bisset thus pays his tribute to the same inspiring theme... | |
 | Willis's Current notes - 1853 - 112 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - Birmingham (England) - 1853 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
...question are not cited quite correctly by UHEDA. They run as follows : " 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." They occur in the First Part of the Botanic Garden, p. 29.,... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 422 pages
...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 between Livingston and Fulton realized, to a great degree, the vision of the poet.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...steam-engine : Or on wide waving wing expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their...move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." 2. What would he have said, if he had but lived to witness... | |
 | M. Barbieri - Clackmannanshire (Scotland) - 1857 - 412 pages
...to navigation, and to railways, as the following lines prove : — " 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." Till within the last... | |
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