 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 Quarterly review - Pagina 271841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Dunlap - 1834 - 448 pagina’s
...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 day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. For, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name Of poet and of prophet were the same.* " Confiding in these... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pagina’s
...the country where he had sojourned. '• Westward the course of empire takes it» 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 pagina’s
...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 day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its intense interest... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pagina’s
...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...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. In August, 1728, he entered into marriage with Anne, the eldest daughter of Mr Forster, speaker of... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pagina’s
...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 fortunes... | |
 | 1836 - 552 pagina’s
...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. " * Milton's Defensio Secunda. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 pagina’s
...a gifted mind : " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last !" If this hasty sketch of our possessions, prospects, and resources, be not overdrawn,— and we feel... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1837 - 458 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 396 pagina’s
...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 fortunes... | |
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