 | 1827 - 544 Seiten
...our country,^ Westward the star of Empire lakes its way ; The four first acts already past, The 6Ah 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 332 Seiten
...empires and of arts; The good and great, inspiring epick rage ; The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds, in her decay Such as she...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way j The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1829 - 592 Seiten
...speculations of our ' students of prophecy.' ' 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 the last.' The American empire is certainly the most remarkable in its origin, character, and rapid development,... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 310 Seiten
...empires and of arts ; The good and great, inspiring epick rage ; The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds, in her decay Such as she bred, when fresh and young ; When heavenly name did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 314 Seiten
...closing canto : " 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 his last." But it was only the sagacity of a great man, reasoning from cause to effect ; and we will,... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1883 - 402 Seiten
...picture, the concluding lines of those verses : ' ' Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; Tin- four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." The eagle's head and front, and its flight are in the direction of the dexter of the shield, from east... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 Seiten
...empire, and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she...did animate her clay By future poets shall be sung. * Shakspeare. f Lord Malmesbury was sent to Paris in 1796 to offer peace, and it was refused. The following... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 334 Seiten
...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day ; — Time's noblest offspring is his last. THE END. ON the 8th of August, ten turtles, a negro youth, and myself embarked on board the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 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 OFISPBIHO is ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children, at... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 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, TlXB'l 1TOBI.EST OnSFBIKG IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
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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. 
