 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 pàgines
...her 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. Warton. or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pàgines
...produced by a high poetical inspiration : "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 ofispring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pàgines
...her 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. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage with Miss... | |
 | John Overton Choules - 1826 - 34 pàgines
...rapturous to anticipate the future ! " 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 her last !" Oh ! it is most recreating to the mind's eye, tired with the follies and vices... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1826 - 348 pàgines
...he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley. 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 his last. THE END. ON the 8th August, ten turtles, a negro youth and myself embarked on... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 pàgines
...muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : — 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 his last.' . - 'Six Months in the West Indies.1 2d ed. 1856. 323. B.— pa. An answer,... | |
 | 1827 - 470 pàgines
...her clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes her way, The four first acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." In 1783, Mr. Sharp's sensibilities were again awakened in behalf of the poor... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pàgines
...page, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Westward the courseof empire takes its sway ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the latt Bishop Berkeley on America. HAVING in the former numbers given a brief view of... | |
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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. 
