 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 pages
...eyes the development of that magnificent drama thus glowingly announced by a gifted mind : " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last !" If this hasty sketch of our... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1846 - 500 pages
...our national domain, the Fifth Act of Bishop Berkeley's world-drama to be enacted here : " Westward, the Star of Empire takes its way : The first four acts already past, The Fifth shall close the Drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last I " We have cast back a retrospect... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...poet and the brightest dreams of the philosopher are undergoing a practical experiment. " Westward the star of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past, The lifth shall end the drama with the day. Time's nobl, si otfspiing is its last." LANGUAGE. H»il native... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 732 pages
...morality of the Gospel, and the religion of the Redeemer. BOOK IL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 1 Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, — The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest empire is the last." BEEKKLKT THE PUBLIC SEALS, OR COATS... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the star of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past — A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; — Time's noblest offspring ie the last •: THE... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - 1857 - 506 pages
...unbidden- in the statesman's mind while he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley, — " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with a day ; Times noblest offspring is the last." Yes, let this measure of justice... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1857 - 712 pages
...morality of the Gospel? and the religion of the Redeemer, BOOK II. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, — Tiie fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's »rf>lept or;pire 5s the last." THE PUBLIC... | |
 | 1858 - 590 pages
...Berkeley wrote, with a singular intuition that more than atones for defective harmony : " Westward the star of empire takes its way. The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last." But this suggests a final thought,... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...wisdom can conjecture. Bishop Berkeley, writing on the planting of America, said " Westward thecourse of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past ; The fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is his last." But if history is a five-act... | |
 | 1858 - 770 pages
...wisdom can conjecture. Bishop Berkeley, writing on the planting of America, said " Westward thccourao of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past ; The fifth shall close the drama with the day — Times'i noblest offspring is his laat." But if history is a five-act... | |
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Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
