 | United States - 1839 - 622 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 drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WBITTIN TOR THZ FIFTIETH ANM vv.RSARV OF THE IHAT/GUHATION Of WASHINGTON, APRIL 3l>,... | |
 | 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...the drama 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... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 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 drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...the drama 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 376 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama 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... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 362 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...the drama 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... | |
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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. 
