 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 Seiten
...did animate her clay, by future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, Tho four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with tho day : Timo'i noblest offspring is the laiU In August, 1728, he entered into marriage with Anne,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1837 - 458 Seiten
...of the country where he had sojourned. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a School for savage children, at a salary of... | |
 | 1837 - 396 Seiten
...blessings, on our country, Westward the star of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes... | |
 | 1838 - 514 Seiten
...composed those elegant lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted ; "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; KOBLIST OFF8PRIHG 13 THE LAST." 7. — Ceesar's Commentaries on ike Gallic War, and the first book... | |
 | 1838 - 428 Seiten
...the poetical and prophetic character. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is its last." But of all the traits in Berkeley's character, his disinterestedness and wide reaching philanthropy... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 524 Seiten
...composed those elegant lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted : " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A Ji.i'tl' shall close the drama with the day ; NOBLEST OKF8PRIKO IS THI LAST." 7. — Omar's Commentaries... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1838 - 40 Seiten
...the United States. "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is her last." Meantime at the head of the NEW THIRTEEN, our own Ohio proudly stands; and the experience... | |
 | 1839 - 630 Seiten
...young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way— The four first acts already...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D, 1839. By... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 Seiten
...ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I shall suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts already...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 46, col. 2, line 3. Whereon his altar-tomb, $c. An Interpolation. Page 46, col. 2, line 11. Tho'... | |
 | 1839 - 622 Seiten
...young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way— The four first acts already...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WBITTIN TOR THZ FIFTIETH ANM vv.RSARV OF THE IHAT/GUHATION Of WASHINGTON, APRIL 3l>, 1SS9. By... | |
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Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
