 | 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'... | |
 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - Ohio - 1839 - 356 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... | |
 | Ohio - 1839 - 358 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...prelate of England, who bestowed his benefactions, as well as blessings, on our Country ; "Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...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... | |
 | 1840 - 288 pages
...Masonic aspect, the famous prediction of Bishop Berkeley : " Westward the coarse of empire takes it way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER in the chair : At the conclusion of a paper we are always glad to hear any remarks... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Honor - 1841 - 40 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...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." THE END. FORNIA LIBRARY ... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 376 pages
...decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes...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.... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Georgia - 1841 - 456 pages
...decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay , By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes...the day, — Time's noblest offspring is the last. IV. — PASE 10. REFERENCE TO DEBATES IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS IN WHICH OGLETHORPE TOOK A FART.... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 362 pages
...decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1730. 34 THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SARAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,... | |
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There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did... 
