 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pàgines
...the poetical and prophetic character. " 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." But of all the traits in Berkeley's character, his disinterestedness and wide-reaching... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pàgines
...the poetical and prophetic character. " 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." But of all the traits in Berkeley's character, his disinterestedness and wide-reaching... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 pàgines
...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." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers... | |
 | Irishman - 1843 - 258 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. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 pàgines
...though I shall 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. P. 282, 1. 14. TJie spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 470 pàgines
...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 : • Time's noblest offspring is the last. A SERMON, INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN... | |
 | 1854 - 886 pàgines
...some consoling forethought 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 shell close the drama with the dayTime's noblest offspring is its last." We trust that the revival... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1883 - 408 pàgines
...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 - 1843 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - 468 pàgines
...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,... | |
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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. 
