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" 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. "
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 390
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...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. During the preparations for his departure, Dr....
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...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. During the preparations for his departure, Dr....
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Johann Gottfried von Herder's Sämmtliche Werke ...

Johann Gottfried Herder - 1806 - 432 pages
...fresh and young, when heav'nly flame did animate her clay , by future poets shall by sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; the four first acts already past,' A fifth shall close the drama with th» day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 2>te COittfe, matt bet ©egenb, matt bet jje'tt,...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 7

1813 - 802 pages
...and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools, he concludes with the following stanza, 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. These verses, the only poetry attributed to Berkeley,...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...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. •^ persuasions as will keep one of the first...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes it's way : The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.' * The very day before he sailed, in the midst...
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Voyage to South America, Volume 1

Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1820 - 334 pages
...attraction to the whole world. We shall then verify the poetic prediction of Bishop 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 the last." This will be a mighty re volution, not brought...
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Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq

Prince Hoare - 1820 - 634 pages
...young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay — By future poets shall be sung. " VI. 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." vrhere he conceived that, consequently, a...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3

George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...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. . A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE PROPAGATION OF...
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Voyage to South America, Volume 2

Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1820 - 336 pages
...whole world. We shall then verify the poetic prediction of Bishop BERKELEY. " Westward the course ef 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." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought...
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