 | George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - 468 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay : Such as she...poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; A SERMON,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 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...drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. P. 282, 1. 14. TJie spoiler spoiled of all; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience de Charles-Quint:... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1883 - 408 páginas
...rehearse, Waits now in distant lands for better times, 1'roducing subjects worthy verse. Westward the course of Empire takes its way. The four first acts...past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day, The world's great effort is the last." Under date, Trinity, June 4th, 1723, he writes to Percival :... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 páginas
...and of arts, — The good and great inspiring epic rage — The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she...did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. u Westward the course of empire takes ita way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close... | |
 | 1842 - 572 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...drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ; ' how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened, how could its intense... | |
 | 1845 - 952 páginas
...hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heav'nly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a living poet, in verses... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 páginas
...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I may suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 153, line 18. Where on hit altar.tomb, Sfc. An Interpolation. Page 154, line 3. Tho' in... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 270 páginas
...hand away to the West, as he repeated these wonderful words to his painter-companion : " Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." BERKELEY'S MISSION TO THE NEW WOULD. 217 " Confiding," says Verplanck, in his noble tribute... | |
 | James Wills - 1846 - 262 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter to... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and yotmg, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future...drama 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... | |
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There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great 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 did... 
