 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 - Página 468editado por - 1877Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 páginas
...that have all the inclination, but want the genius, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Warton. or perhaps the art, of the ancients. Some among them, who understand English, begin to relish... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 510 páginas
...inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame...past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at home; or assist... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 58 páginas
...blessings.* en 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 sketched the fortunes... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1825 - 144 páginas
...Blossoms of the JVortt." BOWRING'S Russian Anthology. STANZA X.—" Unenvying," &c. " Westward the course of empire takes its way: The four first acts...the day— Time's noblest offspring is the last." BISHOP BERKELEY: Written fifty years before the declaration of American independence. STANZA XVI. See... | |
 | 1863 - 538 páginas
...stanza of this little Poem seems to have been produced by a high poetical inspiration : " Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last." This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight and uncommon sagacity;... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1826 - 348 páginas
...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when he muses on the prophecy of Berkley. Westward the course of Empire takes its way; The four first acts...drama with the day;— Time's noblest offspring is his last. THE END. ON the 8th August, ten turtles, a negro youth and myself embarked on board the good... | |
 | 1827 - 410 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes her way, The four first acts already past,; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest... | |
 | 1827 - 470 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, Tlie wisest heads and noblest hearts. When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes her way, The four first acts already past; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 páginas
...thoughts will arise unbidden in a statesman's mind, when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley: — The four first acts already past— A fifth shall close the drama with the day;— Westward the course of empire takes its way; Time's noblest offspring is his last.' . • ' Six Months... | |
 | 1827 - 564 páginas
...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 sketched the fortunes... | |
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