...noblest hearts. When heav'nly 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. I know not how Bishop Berkley, if he were now alive, would be able to make his peace with...

...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. Warton. or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin...

...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...drama with the day ; *"' Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. VOL. X. C or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English,...

...animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The (bur first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Thus, half a century before the folly of Britain had begun to alienate the provinces of...

...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...

...watered one ! 'Tis sweet to think upon the past, 'tis rapturous to anticipate the future ! " Westward the course of empire takes its way — The four first...drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is her last !" Oh ! it is most recreating to the mind's eye, tired with the follies and vices of despotic...

...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. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage with Miss Forster, eldest...

...stanza of this little Poem seems to have been produced by a high poetical inspiration : "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest ofispring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight...

...Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts alroady past. y 4 A A fifth sliall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is his last. ("). (*) De loop des Rijles neemt haren koers naar het Westen ; de vier eerste bedrijven zijn reeds...

...There are mementoes of insecurity on the right hand and on the left ; and many deep thoughts will arise unbidden in a statesman's mind, when he muses on the...the day ; — Time's noblest offspring is his last.' . - 'Six Months in the West Indies.1 2d ed. 1856. 323. B.— pa. An answer, equally correct and melancholy,...