| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 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. P. 263,1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience de CharlesQuint :... | |
| Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 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. P. 263, 1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience de CharlesQuint... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 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. P. 263, 1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience de CharlesQuint... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 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... | |
| James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...the country where he had sojourned. '• Westward the course of empire takes it» 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... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...of the country where he had sojourned. ' Westward the coarse of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSFi'.ING IS ITS LAST..' / " Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 764 pages
...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...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its intense interest... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pages
...virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools, — There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. In August, 1728, he entered into marriage with Anne, the eldest daughter of Mr Forster, speaker of... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...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 noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately... | |
| 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... | |
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