 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...the day ; *"' Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. VOL. X. C or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The (bur first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Thus, half a century before the folly of Britain had begun to alienate the provinces of America, did... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 67 pages
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 782 pages
...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A tilth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Thus, half a century before the folly of Britain had begun to alienate the provinces of America, did... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...fresh and young-. When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage with Miss Forster, eldest daughter... | |
 | John Overton Choules - 1826 - 34 pages
...watered one ! 'Tis sweet to think upon the past, 'tis rapturous to anticipate the future ! " Westward the course of empire takes its way — The four first...drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is her last !" Oh ! it is most recreating to the mind's eye, tired with the follies and vices of despotic... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1826 - 348 pages
...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley. Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day ; — Time's noblest offspring is his last. THE END. ON the 8th August, ten turtles, a negro youth and myself embarked on board the good... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...stanza of this little Poem seems to have been produced by a high poetical inspiration : "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest ofispring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 pages
...arise unbidden in a statesman's mind, when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : — Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...drama with the day ; — Time's noblest offspring is his last.' . - 'Six Months in the West Indies.1 2d ed. 1856. 323. B.— pa. An answer, equally correct... | |
 | 1827 - 470 pages
...flame did animate 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...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." In 1783, Mr. Sharp's sensibilities were again awakened in behalf of the poor Africans by private information,... | |
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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. 
