| James Wills - 1846 - 262 páginas
...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. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter to lord... | |
| George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...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." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office... | |
| 1846 - 1028 páginas
...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." Our missionary friends, now assembling from all parts, will know what use to make of this... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 páginas
...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... | |
| George Edward Ellis - 1846 - 500 páginas
...enacted here : " 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 I " We have cast back a retrospect through nearly four hundred years. Dare we cast the horoscope of... | |
| 1846 - 484 páginas
...poets shall be sung. Westward the course 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 hut. THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE. VOL. XL FEBRUARY, 1846. No. 4. INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. WHETHER that... | |
| Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 páginas
...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A ffth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1730. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SARAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,... | |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1847 - 268 páginas
...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." And if we consider the rapid strides with which those countries have attained their present position... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 páginas
...many hundred square leagues do for the United States ? " Westward the course of empire takes its waj; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last!" And now, stripping off the dark coal measures like a pall, we expose the chocolate-coloured beds of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 páginas
...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. — Warton. understand English, begin to relish our authors ; and I am informed that at Florence they... | |
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