 | James Wills - 1846 - 262 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 letter... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 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; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 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 began their... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 pàgines
...square leagues do for the United States ? " Westward the course of empire takes its waj; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last!" And now, stripping off the dark coal measures like a pall, we expose the chocolate-coloured... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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. LESSON XXVIII. Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus. — TK HERVKY. FLUTES in the sunny air,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 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. understand English, begin to relish our authors ; and I am informed that at Florence... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1847 - 268 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." And if we consider the rapid strides with which those countries have attained their present... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 pàgines
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first ac*s 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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 pàgines
...Arts and Learning in America, after speaking of the decay of Europe, he adds : Westward the coarse of empire takes its way : The first four acts already...the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. Hartley too, who, in spite of his material fantasmagoria, ranks high among the few men of... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1848 - 586 pàgines
...The wisest heads and noblest hearts." " 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." And, at a more recent period, but, still, when there was nothing to be seen in this vast... | |
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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. 
