 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 846 pages
...observe the remarkable prediction in the Botanic Garden (1791) : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car !" It appears that in 1759 Dr. Robison, then a student in the University of Glasgow, threw out an idea of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 414 pages
...it would be soon accomplished, it was thought that it would never be effected : — " ' Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.' " " The slow barge now goes as fast as you please," said Harry. " The rapid car is to come ; and 1... | |
 | James David Forbes - Mathematics - 1856 - 218 pages
...VI. write those often quoted lines in the Botanic Garden (canto i. line 290) :— " Soon «hall thine arm, nnconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." (385.) A somewhat longer pause now occurs. But in Trevithick 1802 we find Richard Trevithick, a Cornish... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...who " in simmering cauldrons played." Darwin is poetical when he becomes prophetic : " Soon shall tby arm, nnconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The prophecy is accomplished. But steam has another work to do : " Or, on wide waving wings expanded... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 552 pages
...last be overcome. Darwin, in his 'Botanic Garden' (1781), has the following prophecy : — Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered 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,... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - Great Britain - 1873 - 478 pages
...before Fulton's day,) could have appeared more chimerical than this couplet of Darwin's — " Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid ear ; " — Keats poured out beautiful and true poetry, to which, in Wilsonian language, " angels,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Inventions - 1885 - 320 pages
...in the condensing-engine the Doctor should have written this: — ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car.' It was twelve years after he wrote this, that Fulton had an experimental steamboat on the river Seine... | |
 | Hattie E. Macomber - Inventions - 1897 - 176 pages
...lines, which show how much people hoped to make the giant do : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." It was a true prophecy. Mr. Fulton married the daughter of a Mr. Walter Livingston. He was much interested... | |
 | John Perry - Engines - 1899 - 664 pages
...to do other things as well as pump, that men ventured to prophesy " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." It is useless to consider what would have happened if it had been absolutely necessary to drive great factories... | |
 | G. R. S. Darroch - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 286 pages
...strangely prophetic sound these lines from the pen of Erasmus Darwin, who died in 1802 !— " Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered 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 ! " Evidently... | |
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Soon shall thy arm, nnconquered 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. 
