| 1837 - 396 Seiten
...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 - 514 Seiten
...too, he composed those elegant 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... | |
| 1838 - 716 Seiten
...of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.' " ' Not suck as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay By future ages shall be sung.' " ' Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first... | |
| 1838 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 524 Seiten
...too, he composed those elegant lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted : " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A Ji.i'tl' shall close the drama with the day ; NOBLEST OKF8PRIKO IS THI LAST." 7. — Omar's Commentaries... | |
| Timothy Walker - 1838 - 40 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1839 - 630 Seiten
...innocence, Where nature guides, and virtue rules; Where men shall not impose, for truth and sense, The. pedantry of courts and schools. There shall be...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 William... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 Seiten
...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I shall suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...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 - 358 Seiten
...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... | |
| Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - 1839 - 356 Seiten
...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... | |
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