 | 1801 - 606 pages
...Icaft merit is, that pofterior 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. < " —... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 662 pages
...few courageously ingenious persons, that the steam engine could ever be successfully or safely 177 employed in driving forward vessels on the water....would never be effected : — ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.' " " The slow barge now goes... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Architecture - 1825 - 324 pages
...few courageously ingenious persons, that the steam engine could ever be successfully or safely 177 employed in driving forward vessels on the water....would never be effected : — ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.'" " The slow barge now goes as... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 314 pages
...when it was scarcely believed by any but a few courageously ingenious persons, that the steam engine could ever be successfully or safely employed in driving...would never be effected : — ' Soon shall thy arm, uuconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.'" " The slow barge now goes as... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic literature, English - 1827 - 316 pages
...few courageously ingenious persons, that the steam engine could ever be successfully or safely .177 employed in driving forward vessels on the water....would never be effected : — ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.' " " The slow barge now goes... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 474 pages
...very generally adopted. I remain, Sir, Your's, 4c. CALORIC. Bath, Jot». 12, 1828. STEAM CARRIAGES. " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid eer; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.». DABWIN.... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...their poetical enthusiasm, and prophetic truth, and predicted the future triumph of the steam-engine. " 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... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...poetical enthusiasm, and prophetic truth, and predicted the future triumph of the sjfeam-engine. " 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... | |
 | William Matthews - 1835 - 564 pages
...vision would be nearly realized, by the velocity of motion effected on rivers and rail-roads : — " 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." " If the channel... | |
 | William Matthews - Fountains - 1835 - 522 pages
...vision would be nearly realized, by the velocity of motion effected on rivers and rail-roads : — " 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," " If the channel... | |
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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... 
