| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American literature - 1829 - 332 pages
...did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way j The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. While this institution was rising up by the zeal of the benevolent and the good ; Connecticut was blessed... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1829 - 592 pages
...speculations of our ' students of prophecy.' ' 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 the last.' The American empire is certainly the most remarkable in its origin, character, and rapid development,... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American literature - 1829 - 314 pages
...closing canto : " 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 his last." But it was only the sagacity of a great man, reasoning from cause to effect ; and we will,... | |
| Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 402 pages
...picture, the concluding lines of those verses : ' ' Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; Tin- four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." The eagle's head and front, and its flight are in the direction of the dexter of the shield, from east... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - Slavery - 1832 - 334 pages
...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day ; — Time's noblest offspring is his last. THE END. ON the 8th of August, ten turtles, a negro youth, and myself embarked on board the... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 352 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 OFISPBIHO is ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children, at... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 340 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, TlXB'l 1TOBI.EST OnSFBIKG IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - American literature - 1833 - 280 pages
...sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empires and of arts, The good and great, inspiring epic rage,...the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. I have quoted these fine lines at length because I do not recollect to have seen or heard them referred... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - History - 1833 - 268 pages
...breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her day, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course...the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. I have quoted these fine lines at length because I do not recollect to have seen or heard them referred... | |
| William Dunlap - Art - 1834 - 448 pages
...sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empires and of arts, The good and great, inspiring epic rage,...the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. For, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name Of poet and of prophet were the same.* " Confiding in these... | |
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