 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache (hon.) - 1884 - 456 pàgines
...when he added that, with the aid of steam, there will be an emigration to the moon, and that — " Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as .they move." This bold surmise may be compared with a yet bolder speculation which has lately been put forward,... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 pàgines
...the slow barge, or drive the rapid cnr, Or on the wide waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; Fair crews triumphant,...Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gasping crowd A nd armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." " What would he... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pàgines
...(lie 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,...Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." 4. What would he... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 666 pàgines
...barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through (lie fields of air. Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their lluttering kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies sink beneath... | |
 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - 1891 - 344 pàgines
...the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; On on, wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, Fair crews triumphant,...Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. Since Darwin, in... | |
 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - 1891 - 356 pàgines
...Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; On on, wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, Fair crews triumphant,...Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. Since Darwin, in... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1891 - 570 pàgines
...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 thei r«fl uttering kerchiefs as they move; Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies sink... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 508 pàgines
...289 :— ' 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.' 3 From the original in the Dreer Autograph Collection belonging to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - 1893 - 466 pàgines
...when he added that, with the aid of steam, there will be an emigration to the moon, and that — " Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move." This bold surmise may be compared with a yet bolder speculation which has lately been put forward,... | |
 | 1868 - 1236 pàgines
...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... | |
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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 ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering... 
