 | 1818 - 384 halaman
...we remember right (for we quote from memory), are as follows : " Westward the scene of empire bends its way: The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama will] the day ! Time's noblest olVspring is his last." Since the period when Bishop Berkeley lived,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 48 halaman
...benefactions, as well as 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... | |
 | 1827 - 564 halaman
...benefactions, as well as 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 314 halaman
...prophetick — particularly the closing canto : " 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 his last." But it was only the sagacity of a great man, reasoning from cause to effect... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 halaman
...continued to the close of his long life. " Westward the course 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." * * DEAN BERKELKY, afterwards Bishop of Cloyne. This eminent philosopher, good... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 halaman
...benefactions, as well as 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 is, in which the great minds of antiquity... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 380 halaman
...without some consoling forethought of the fortune 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, TlXl'l NOBLEST OFT8PBINO IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 halaman
...without gome consoling forethought of the fortune 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... | |
 | James Mackintosh - 1834 - 540 halaman
...pressentiment (i) WAKTON on Pope. Hconsolant delà destinée dupays qu'ilavait habité. Westward thé course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past; A fifth shall close thé draina wilh thé day; TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING 1S ITS LAST. (ij Déçu dans... | |
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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 the last. 
