 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 páginas
...character and human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day j Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 514 páginas
...too, he 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...too, he 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... | |
 | 1839 - 622 páginas
...fresh and 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...the drama 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>,... | |
 | 1839 - 630 páginas
...fresh and 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...the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 páginas
...century 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...the drama 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 páginas
...prelate of England, who bestowed his benefactions, as well as blessings, on our Country ; "Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...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... | |
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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. 
