 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1798 - 472 pages
...\ " Soon (hall thy arm, Unconquer'd Steam ! afar I3rag the flow barge, or drive the rapid car; 290 Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot...kerchiefs as they move; Or warrior-bands alarm the gaping croud, And armies shrink beneath the fhadowy cloud. " So mighty HERCULES o'er many a clime Waved his... | |
 | Biography - 1799 - 402 pages
...flow barge, or drive the tapicl car ; "Or on wide-waving wings, expanded, bear " Thy flying chariot through the fields of air. " — — — Fair crews...warrior-bands alarm the gaping crowd, " And armies fbrink beneath the lhadowy cloud. " So mighty Hercules o'er many a clime " Wav'd his huge mace in Virtue's... | |
 | Public characters - 1799 - 422 pages
...flow barge, or drive the tapid car ; " Or on wide-waving wings, expanded, bear " Thy flying chariot through the fields of air. " ^— Fair crews triumphant...wave their fluttering "kerchiefs as they move ; " Or warrior-bauds alarm the gaping crowd, " And armies (brink beneath the (hadowy cloud. " So mighty Hercules... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
...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...Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move} Or warrior bands alarm the gaping croud, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. CONCLUSION. HERE... | |
 | Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 pages
...most capital invention of modern times, the steamengine, is worked! Soon shall thine 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. I^air crews, triumphant... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1809 - 286 pages
...Drag tho 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,...crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. * Emma. Why does Dr. Darwin, in the passage you quoted the other day, call it explosive steam ? Father.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1875 - 630 pages
...applied to locomotion of any kind, uttered the wellknown prediction— ' Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUERED STEAM, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings, expanded, hear ;, The flying chariot through the fields of air!' Two-thirds of the prophecy have been fulfilled... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1810 - 586 pages
...hava 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."—DAXWIM^. The sleam-engine,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 446 pages
...bear Tlis flying chariot through the fields of air. Fait crews triumphant leaning from above, Shull wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior-bands...crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. Emma. Why does Dr. Darwin, in the passage you quoted the other day, call it explosive steam ? Father.... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1816 - 584 pages
...we havt no idea. la America vessels are already navigated by steam. "Soon shall thy arm, uncnnquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The Hying chariot through the fields of air."—DARWHSThe steam-engine,... | |
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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 fluttering kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior-bands... 
