 | 1917 - 678 pages
...the following verses from his " Economy of Vegetation," Canto I.: Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQDER '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. And again in a footnote:... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...baptized in tears.1 Tht Country Justice. Part i ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802. 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 field of air. The Botanic Garden. Part... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 672 pages
...following verses from his " Economy of Vegetation," Canto I.: Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER 'D STEAM I 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. And again in a footnote:... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 pages
...prophetic truth. They predicted the future triumph of the ."team engine. " Soon shall thy Arm, uuconqucred steam, afar. Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car, Or on the wide waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; Fair crews triumphant,... | |
 | Stephen Roper - 1889 - 422 pages
...The poet's anticipations have been long since more than realized — "Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide waving wings, extended, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air." There are few manufacturing... | |
 | 1901 - 624 pages
...man who is to fulfil Darwin's prophecy (1759), closing the stanza: "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." Of these three inventors... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - 572 pages
...poetry and prophecy, he published as early as 1793: — • Soon shall thy arm, wncouquer'd Steam I afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot thro' the fields of air !' — Botanic Garden, Cant.... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - 1985 - 582 pages
...pp. 95-8). 11 Darwin 1791 (pp. 29-30), Pt 1, Canto I, lines 289-96: 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,... | |
 | Georg Kohlmaier, Barna von Sartory - 1991 - 666 pages
...— ^ — JLJ .h-, J-^L Steam, Iron, and the Industrial Revolution 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... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...and has been the cause of all organic life? Zoonomia 1794, I, 511 19 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 Botanic Garden I,... | |
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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... 
