| Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 pągines
...without 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 shall close the drama with the day, TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 212 pągines
...glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time. Producing subjects worthy fame. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." It is difficult... | |
| Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1874 - 380 pągines
...which close his poem " On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America " : — " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall end the drama with the day : Time's noblest offering is the last." And Macaulay, some... | |
| California. Legislature - 1874 - 446 pągines
...Heaven. "(1) Or, perhaps, he is known to manj' more only by his oft-quoted prophecy: " Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." It may not be amiss,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1874 - 374 pągines
...close his poem " On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America " : • — " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall end the drama with the day : Time's noblest offering is the last." And Macaulay, some... | |
| Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1876 - 626 pągines
...without some consoling forethought of the fortune of a country where he had sojourned : " ' Westward the course of empire takes its way : The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is its last.' " Thus disappointed... | |
| Henry Edward Manning - 1877 - 396 pągines
...hope too that the prophecy of Bishop Berkeley may be abundantly fulfilled in America : ' Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.' I hope there... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pągines
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. GEORGE BERKELEY.... | |
| sir George Christopher M. Birdwood - 1878 - 190 pągines
...ever energetic Aryas hastened forward with the setting sun to people a new Atlantis. " Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest off-spring is the last." The discovery... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 292 pągines
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. George Berkeley.... | |
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