 she bred when 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 fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring...  The American Journal of Education - Σελίδα 468επεξεργασία από - 1877Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1837 - 722 σελίδες
...over the ruins of the empires which it has passed in its progress: Westward the course of Empire holds its way, The four first acts already past; A fifth shall close the drama of the day; Time's noblest empire is his last. It is thus the huge skeletons of Babylon and Tyre are... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1838 - 332 σελίδες
...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...with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 279, line 18. As erst the ravening brood o'er chaos flew, See Paradise Lost, X. Page 279, line... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 300 σελίδες
...too, he composed those elegant lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted: " Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...close the drama with the day; TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING 19 THE LAST." 7.—Caipar's Commentaries on the GallicWar, and the first book of the Greek Paraphrase... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 524 σελίδες
...too, he composed those elegant lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted : " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Tntl'3 NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS THI LAST." 7.—Crrsar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, and the first... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 σελίδες
...lines, of which the concluding stanza is often quoted : " Westward the course of empire takes its wny ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day; TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS THE LAST." 7.—Ccesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, and the Jint book of tlif G-reek Paraphrase ; with English... | |
 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - 1839 - 356 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 350 σελίδες
...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 - 1840 - 440 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 σελίδες
...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...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." In that high romance, if romance it be, in which Ilici great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 362 σελίδες
...decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes...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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