 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, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering...  The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge - Side 1121825Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 sider
...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...wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud : So mighty Hercules,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 sider
...to be not only safe but joyous ; there will probably be an intended emigration to the moon, when " Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move." A poetical revolution was at hand. A little before the beginning of the convulsions of France, and... | |
 | 1863 - 588 sider
...rapid car : Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Their crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs, as they move; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies'shririk beneath the shadowy cloud." Contemporary critics... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 sider
...barge, or drive the rapid car ; FULTON'S FIRST STEAMBOAT. 825 Or on wide waving wing expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, —...wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink** beneath the shadowy cloud." 2. What would... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 sider
...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...wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud : So mighty Hercules... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 434 sider
...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...wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud : So mighty Hercules,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 530 sider
...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, leaning from above, Shall wave their flutt'ring kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath... | |
 | 1868 - 1236 sider
...years elapsed after the publication of Darwin's prophecy, before four lines of it became actual fact. Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move: a scene which most of us have witnessed ; and a quarter of a century had not passed before the French... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 sider
...years elapsed after the publication of Darwin's prophecy, before four lines of it became actual fact. Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move ; a scene which most of us have witnessed ; and a quarter of a century had not passed before the French... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 sider
...unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, ov drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.• Fair...wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd. And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud : So mighty Hercules,... | |
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