 | George Edward Ellis - 1846 - 500 頁
...Berkeley's world-drama to be enacted here : " 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 I " We have cast back a retrospect through nearly four hundred years. Dare we cast the horoscope of... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 頁
...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." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office... | |
 | James Wills - 1846 - 262 頁
...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. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter to lord... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 頁
...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A ffth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1730. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SARAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 頁
...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." Our missionary friends, now assembling from all parts, will know what use to make of this... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 頁
...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... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS. M.D. - 1847 - 530 頁
...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 already...with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" and that the other should, in these happy climes, and on that virgin earth, the seat of innocence,... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1847 - 268 頁
...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." And if we consider the rapid strides with which those countries have attained their present position... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 頁
...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. LESSON XXVIII. Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus. — TK HERVKY. FLUTES in the sunny air, And an echo... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 680 頁
...BOOK II. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. " Westward the star of empire takea its way ; The first four acts already past, — The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest empire is the last." BEUKLCT THE PUBLIC SEALS, OR COATS OF ARMS, OF THE SEVERAL UNITED STATES. As the... | |
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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. 
