 | 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... | |
 | 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 :... | |
 | 1842 - 572 pàgines
...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 ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ; ' how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened, how could its... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 766 pàgines
...his college, to forego hie work of heroic, or rather godlike, benevolence ; though not without some consoling forethought of 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pàgines
...on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A . A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pàgines
...been accomplished. His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close...the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how could its... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 590 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...he had sojourned. " Westward the course of empire Inkcs its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; TIME'S... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pàgines
...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'... | |
 | 1845 - 952 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." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a living poet,... | |
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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. 
