| George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - Philosophy, Modern - 1843 - 468 pages
...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 - Electronic journals - 1883 - 408 pages
...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 :... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...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 noblesl ofispring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately... | |
| English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...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...be adequately sustained, but by the introduction of such a character as our Washington ? " Washington had attained his manhood when that spark was struck... | |
| 1844 - 766 pages
...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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 pages
...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... | |
| Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 480 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...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... | |
| 1845 - 952 pages
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. " 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." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a living poet, in verses of... | |
| |