 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1826 - 348 sider
...he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley. 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 his last. THE END. ON the 8th August, ten turtles, a negro youth... | |
 | 1826 - 434 sider
...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. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage... | |
 | 1863 - 538 sider
...produced by a high poetical inspiration : "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 ofispring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 sider
...muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : — 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 his last.' . - 'Six Months in the West Indies.1 2d ed. 1856. 323.... | |
 | 1827 - 512 sider
...page, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Westward the courseof empire takes its sway ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the latt Bishop Berkeley on America. HAVING in the former numbers given... | |
 | 1827 - 470 sider
...her clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes her way, The four first acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." In 1783, Mr. Sharp's sensibilities were again awakened in behalf... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 314 sider
...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. While this institution was rising up by the zeal of the benevolent... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1883 - 402 sider
...concluding lines of those verses : ' ' Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; Tin- four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." The eagle's head and front, and its flight are in the direction... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 380 sider
...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...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TlXl'l NOBLEST OFT8PBINO IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
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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. 
