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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. "
The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Page 11
by Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
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The Weekly entertainer; or agreeable and instructive repository ..., Volumes 1-2

1783 - 1276 pages
...wifefl heads and nobleft hearts ! Notfuch ai Europe breeds inner decay ;— Snch as (he bred when frefh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets ihall be fung. Weftward the ftar of empire takes its way ; The four ii. .1 a£b already pad ; A fifth...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 57

Tobias Smollett - 1783 - 504 pages
...wiiclt heads and nobleft hearts. Not fuch as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as (he bred when frefli and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets (hall be fung. Weftward the courfe of empire takes its way ; The four firft aels already pad, A fifth...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August J, 1728,...
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Johann Gottfried von Herder's Sämmtliche Werke ...

Johann Gottfried Herder - 1806 - 432 pages
...empire and of arts, the good and great inspiring epic rage, the wisest heads and noblest hearts. Kot 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 by sung. Westward the course of empire...
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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...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. These verses, the only poetry attributed to Berkeley, were first published in a Miscellany which i...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...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...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. •^ persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ...

Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 pages
...The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographla Britannic*, vol. iu. Corrigenda prefixed. iNot such as Europe breeds in her decay, ' Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last, During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters ..., Volume 16

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 506 pages
...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...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way : persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...up his residence at Newport, where his presence was a great relief to the resident clergyman, as he Not such as Europe breeds in her decay : Such as she...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...
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