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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. "
Critical Essays on a Few Subjects Connected with the History and Present ... - Page 267
by Francis Bowen - 1842 - 352 pages
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Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, Founder of the Colony of Georgia ...

Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1841 - 466 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, — The four first...the day, — Time's noblest offspring is the last IV.—PAGE. 10. KEFERENCE TO DEBATES IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS IN WHICH OGLETHORPE TOOK A PART....
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 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...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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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 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...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....
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 pages
...— The good and great inspiring epic rage — The wisest heads and noblest hearts. » Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 67

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 pages
...noblest empire of time.' The line of verse is taken from a stanza by Bishop Berkeley : " Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." How lamentably the thought is impaired in the citation by the change of a word ! Still this is the...
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The Desire of Reputation: An Address, Before the Phoenix and Union Societies ...

Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 pages
...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." THE END. FORNIA LIBRARY ...
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 374 pages
...animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The/our first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 173Q. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SAEAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,...
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Irish Penny Journal, Volume 1

1841 - 435 pages
...heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire bends its way— The four first acts "already past, A fifth shall close the drama and the day ; Time's noblest offspring is tho last."., . and found to be just fifteen feet in height,...
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The Irish Penny Journal, Volume 1

1841 - 436 pages
...breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, "When heavenly flame did animate her clay, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama and the day; By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire bendt ill way— Time's noblest...
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Missions: Their Authority, Scope and Encouragement. An Essay

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1842 - 432 pages
...slavery has too recently been put away from us, that we should haughtily bear ourselves. * " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." BISHOP BERKELEY. The tear of contrition is not yet dried up in Britain's eye. But what does not our...
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