There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of 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 bred when fresh and young, When heav'nly flame did... The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 302por Alexander Pope - 1822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 páginas
...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. u Westward the course of empire takes ita way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added,... | |
| 1842 - 572 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 ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ; ' how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately... | |
| 1844 - 766 páginas
...the country where he had sojourned." " Westward the courte 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." ( To be continuai.) EH CAKLOVINGIAN ROMANCE — RINALDO. IT... | |
| 1845 - 952 páginas
...the true. " In happy climes the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where man shall not impose for truth and sense, The pedantry...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 270 páginas
...hand away to the West, as he repeated these wonderful words to his painter-companion : " Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." BERKELEY'S MISSION TO THE NEW WOULD. 217 " Confiding," says... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 páginas
...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I may suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 153, line 18. Where on hit altar.tomb, Sfc. An Interpolation.... | |
| John Frost - 1845 - 458 páginas
...His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately... | |
| Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 494 páginas
...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.'" 1 Before quitting this subject, it may be proper to mention,... | |
| Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 páginas
...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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and yotmg, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added,... | |
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