 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.  The Atlantic Monthly - Sida 1591867Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - 468 sidor
...her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; A SERMON, PHKACHBD BBFORB THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS,... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1883 - 408 sidor
...times, 1'roducing subjects worthy verse. Westward the course of Empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day, The world's great effort is the last." Under date, Trinity, June 4th, 1723, he writes to Percival :... | |
 | 1844 - 766 sidor
...the fortune of 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 is strange, that the championship... | |
 | 1842 - 572 sidor
...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 opened, how could its intense interest... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 sidor
...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, and newspapers began their office... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 sidor
...on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A . 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 opened, how could its intense interest... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 sidor
...been accomplished. 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...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how could its intense interest... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 sidor
...of the fortune 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... | |
 | Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 480 sidor
...the fortune 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...drama with the day— Time's noblest offspring is its last.'" 1 Before quitting this subject, it may be proper to mention, that many years after bis... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 sidor
...though I may suffer by the comparison. 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. Page 153, line 18. Where on hit altar.tomb, Sfc. An Interpolation. Page 154, line 3. Tho' in the western... | |
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