 | 1836 - Počet stránok 552
...on our country, " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. " * Milton's Defensio Secunda. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - Počet stránok 318
...a gifted mind : " Westward the star 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 !" If this hasty sketch of our possessions, prospects, and resources, be not overdrawn,— and we feel... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Počet stránok 510
...did animate her clay, by future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, Tho four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with tho day : Timo'i noblest offspring is the laiU In August, 1728, he entered into marriage with Anne,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1837 - Počet stránok 458
...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 in his ambition of keeping a School for savage children, at a salary of... | |
 | 1837 - Počet stránok 396
...blessings, on our country, Westward the star of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 428
...the poetical and prophetic character. " 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." But of all the traits in Berkeley's character, his disinterestedness and wide reaching philanthropy... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 514
...lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted ; "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; KOBLIST OFF8PRIHG 13 THE LAST." 7. — Ceesar's Commentaries on ike Gallic War, and the first book... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1838 - Počet stránok 40
...the United States. "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is her last." Meantime at the head of the NEW THIRTEEN, our own Ohio proudly stands; and the experience... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - Počet stránok 60
...must quote, 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...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 46, col. 2, line 3. Whereon his altar-tomb, $c. An Interpolation. Page 46, col. 2, line 11. Tho'... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 630
...did animate 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...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D, 1839. By... | |
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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. 
