 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...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 ; *"' Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. VOL. X. C or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English,... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 492 pages
..." 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, " Time's noblest offspring is the last." At the distance of 12 miles from Newport, we waited for the Providence stage, in a country... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 602 pages
...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 ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...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; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In September, 1728, a little more than a month after his marriage with Miss Forster, eldest... | |
 | John Overton Choules - Fourth of July orations - 1826 - 34 pages
...rapturous to anticipate the future ! " 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 her last !" Oh ! it is most recreating to the mind's eye, tired with the follies and vices of despotic... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - Black people - 1826 - 348 pages
...he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley. 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 his last. THE END. ON the 8th August, ten turtles, a negro youth and myself embarked on board the good... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...produced by a high poetical inspiration : "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 ofispring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight... | |
 | John Riland - Enslaved persons - 1827 - 270 pages
...muses on the prophecy of Berkeley : — 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 his last.' . - 'Six Months in the West Indies.1 2d ed. 1856. 323. B.— pa. An answer, equally correct... | |
 | African Americans - 1827 - 470 pages
...her clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes her way, The four first acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." In 1783, Mr. Sharp's sensibilities were again awakened in behalf of the poor Africans by... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 512 pages
...page, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Westward the courseof empire takes its sway ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the latt Bishop Berkeley on America. HAVING in the former numbers given a brief view of the rise and... | |
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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. 
