 | James Mackintosh - 1834 - 540 pages
...pressentiment (i) WAKTON on Pope. Hconsolant delà destinée dupays qu'ilavait habité. Westward thé course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past; A fifth shall close thé draina wilh thé day; TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING 1S ITS LAST. (ij Déçu dans son ambition de tenir... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pages
...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 August, 1728, he entered into marriage with Anne, the eldest daughter of Mr Forster, speaker of... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 552 pages
...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. " * Milton's Defensio Secunda. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 pages
...a gifted mind : " 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 !" If this hasty sketch of our possessions, prospects, and resources, be not overdrawn,— and we feel... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day j Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1837 - 458 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1837 - 396 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... | |
 | 1838 - 428 pages
...seems to present again the old combination of the poetical and prophetic character. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts...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... | |
 | 1838 - 514 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
