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. Maine at Gettysburg - Página 221por Maine. Gettysburg Commission - 1898 - 602 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 334 páginas
...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when 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 of August, ten turtles,... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 páginas
...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 is the last. I have quoted these fine lines at length because... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 páginas
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her day, 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. I have quoted these fine lines at length because... | |
| William Dunlap - 1834 - 448 páginas
...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 is the last. For, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name Of... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 páginas
...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 already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. P. 263,1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes.... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 320 páginas
...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 already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. P. 263, 1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes.... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 páginas
...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 already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. P. 263, 1. 24. The spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes.... | |
| William Dunlap - 1834 - 450 páginas
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, Cy future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close tho drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring it the last. For, in .1 Roman mouth, the graceful... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 páginas
...character and human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene,... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 266 páginas
...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 is the last. In August, 1728, he entered into marriage with... | |
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