 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...and the lion join, And George and Britain guard the sterling coin. 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. Darwin. STEAM ENGINE-Achievements the.... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 páginas
...the lily, and the lion join, And George and Britain guard the sterling coin. t 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. PART II. POPULAR GEOLOGT.... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...and the lion join, And George and Britain guard the sterling coin. 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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 páginas
...plan in 1784, that Darwin wrote those well-known lines in the Botanic Garden : "Soon shall thine arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." As it is only with the early foreshadowings of modern inventions that we are concerned, we pursue the... | |
 | Thomas Darnell - 1865 - 96 páginas
...WHOLE. Censure is the tax which a man pays the public for being eminent. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. The horse being troubled... | |
 | 1867 - 422 páginas
...overcome. Darwin, in his Botanic Garden (1781), has the following prophecy:— " 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." Darwin's contemporaries,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 806 páginas
...says he ? — Caw. ••* Darwin.— Thiirlow. 371 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. Tlie Botanic Garden. Part \. Ch. I. Line... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 794 páginas
...merit." 3 Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. 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 i. Ch. I. Line... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 434 páginas
...in 1789, but written it is known at least twenty years before it was published : 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. Fair crews triumphant... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 520 páginas
...published in 1791, before any practical locomotive or steam-boat had been invented : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waring wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant,... | |
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Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car " Or on wide waving wings extended bear " The flying chariot through the fields of air. 
