| George Berkeley - 1843 - 470 страници
...heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth...close the drama with the day : • Time's noblest offspring is the last. A SERMON, INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN... | |
| George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - 468 страници
...heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; A SERMON, PHKACHBD BBFORB THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS,... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 страници
...character and 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 noblesl ofispring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately... | |
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 страници
...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. u Westward the course of empire takes ita 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, and newspapers... | |
| 1842 - 572 страници
...character and 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 ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ; ' how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened, how... | |
| 1844 - 766 страници
...the country where he had sojourned." " Westward the courte 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." ( To be continuai.) EH CAKLOVINGIAN ROMANCE — RINALDO. IT is strange, that... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 270 страници
...hand away to the West, as he repeated these wonderful words to his painter-companion : " Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." BERKELEY'S MISSION TO THE NEW WOULD. 217 " Confiding," says Verplanck, in his... | |
| 1845 - 952 страници
...and young, When heav'nly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 страници
...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I may suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 153, line 18. Where on hit altar.tomb, Sfc. An Interpolation. Page 154,... | |
| Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 страници
...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,... | |
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