 | 1849 - 448 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. Westward Dr. Berkley's muse takes her flight ; how many thousands... | |
 | 1850 - 196 sider
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1850 - 516 sider
...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,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 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, TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
 | Arthur Herman - 1997 - 538 sider
...movement of civilization and universal empire: 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.2 Today the term "empire" conjures up images of imperialism and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. 1072 Oratlon at Plymouth Westward the 3 r 5 6 7 8 : ; < = > ? @ A \ ] ^ _ ` a b I J K L U V W X Q R S T Y Z [ c d e Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 sider
...to which John Adams indirectly refers: 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. ( Works, 7:373) This stanza, though first published in 1752 as... | |
 | Zeese Papanikolas - 1998 - 208 sider
...rage, 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. George Berkeley Coyote's Return All along Coyote's path were... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - 1998 - 428 sider
...Planting Arts and Learning in America": Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the Day; Times noblest Offspring is the last. Neither Beveridge nor many other nineteenth-century Americans... | |
 | Gray A. Brechin - 1999 - 434 sider
...which George Berkeley opened his quatrain. Few pondered the line with which he closed it: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts...past. A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is its last. Notes PREFACE 1. Poe, "A Descent into the Maelstrom," 556-57.... | |
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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. 
