 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.  Poems - Page 294by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets sliall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest oSspring is the last. I know not how Bishop Berkley, if he were now alive, would be able to make his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 392 pages
...fresh and young, When heav'nly flame did animate her clay, By future 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 ; not expect from a Muse that sings so well in the bleak climate of England, if she felt the same warm... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...noblest hearts. When heav'nly 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. I know not how Bishop Berkley, if he were now alive, would be able to make his peace with your Reviewers.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 602 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. Warton. or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin to relish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 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...the day ; *"' Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. VOL. X. C or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The (bur first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Thus, half a century before the folly of Britain had begun to alienate the provinces of America, did... | |
 | Edward Everett - United States - 1824 - 67 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 782 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 already past, A tilth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Thus, half a century... | |
 | 1826 - 434 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. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage with Miss Forster, eldest daughter... | |
 | John Overton Choules - Fourth of July orations - 1826 - 34 pages
...watered one ! 'Tis sweet to think upon the past, 'tis rapturous to anticipate the future ! " Westward the course of empire takes its way — The four first...drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is her last !" Oh ! it is most recreating to the mind's eye, tired with the follies and vices of despotic... | |
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