 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 314 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. While this institution was rising up by the zeal of the benevolent and the good ; Connecticut... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1883 - 402 pàgines
...concluding lines of those verses : ' ' Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; Tin- four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." The eagle's head and front, and its flight are in the direction of the dexter of the shield,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 pàgines
...for his College, to forego his work of heroic, or rather godlike benevolence; though not without some consoling forethought of the fortune of the country...shall close the drama with the day, TIME'S NOBLEST OFISPBIHO is ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children, at... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 pàgines
...for his College, to forego his work of heroic, or rather godlike benevolence; though not without some consoling forethought of the fortune of the country...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TlXB'l 1TOBI.EST OnSFBIKG IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 pàgines
...without some consoling forethought of the fortune of the country where he had sojourne^' Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TiMB'f KOBLF.ST OFFSPBIKO IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 334 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 of August, ten turtles, a negro youth, and myself embarked on board the... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 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. I have quoted these fine lines at length because I do not recollect to have seen or heard... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 pàgines
...her day, 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. I have quoted these fine lines at length because I do not recollect to have seen or heard... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pàgines
...his college, to forego his work of heroic, or rather godlike, benevolence ; though not without some consoling forethought of the fortune of the country...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... | |
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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. 
