| Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Scientific expeditions - 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... | |
| Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 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... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 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... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1837 - 458 pages
...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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 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... | |
| Theology - 1838 - 428 pages
...the poetical and prophetic character. " 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." But of all the traits in Berkeley's character, his disinterestedness and wide reaching philanthropy... | |
| Timothy Walker - History - 1838 - 40 pages
...the United States. "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 her last." Meantime at the head of the NEW THIRTEEN, our own Ohio proudly stands; and the experience... | |
| United States - 1839 - 622 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." ODE, WBITTIN TOR THZ FIFTIETH ANM vv.RSARV OF THE IHAT/GUHATION Of WASHINGTON, APRIL 3l>, 1SS9. By... | |
| United States - 1839 - 630 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." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D, 1839. By... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 60 pages
...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I shall suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 46, col. 2, line 3. Whereon his altar-tomb, $c. An Interpolation. Page 46, col. 2, line 11. Tho'... | |
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