 | 1845 - 952 pages
...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." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a living poet, in verses of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 564 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 Dcfcneio Secund*. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of... | |
 | Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...the fortune 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...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 - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...of the fortune 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... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...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 - History - 1999 - 434 pages
...quatrain. Few pondered the line with which he closed it: 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. Notes PREFACE 1. Poe, "A Descent into the Maelstrom," 556-57. 2. Galgacus rallied his followers... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "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". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, der Trompeter, der... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - History - 1999 - 342 pages
...it, in appropriately theatrical terms: 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.16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa), an enthusiasm that... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...(i/mlpt. i, sect. 6 4 Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, Л fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. 'On the Prospect of Planting Arts and [.earning in America' H7S2lst. h. Irving Berlin (Israel Baline)... | |
 | James M. Jasper - Social Science - 2009 - 328 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools . . . 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. —Bishop George Berkeley The American writer inhabits a country at once the dream of Europe and a... | |
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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. 
