 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 страници
...His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how... | |
 | Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 494 страници
...the country where he had sojourned. " ' Westward the course of empire takes its way : The first four acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is its last.'" 1 Before quitting this subject, it may be proper to mention, that many years... | |
 | James Wills - 1846 - 262 страници
...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...shall close the 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 страници
...and yotmg, 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...shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страници
...without a mind. 1072 Oratlon at Plymouth Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four K L U V W X Q R S T Y Z [ c d e offspring is the last. 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. 1074 Three Dialogues... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 страници
...vierten Strophe seines Gedichts, dessen oft zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...shall close the Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt,... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - 1999 - 342 страници
...injunction. As Bishop Berkeley's famous poem put it, in appropriately theatrical terms: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...shall close the Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa),... | |
 | Gray A. Brechin - 1999 - 434 страници
...pondered the line with which he closed it: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past. A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is its last. Notes PREFACE 1. Poe, "A Descent into the Maelstrom," 556-57. 2. Galgacus rallied... | |
 | Ned C. Landsman - 2000 - 244 страници
...fresh and young, When heav'nly Flame did animate her Clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...shall close the Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.5 Berkeley's description of a westward course of empire helped provincial Americans... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2009 - 328 страници
...Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools . . . Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts...shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. — Bishop George Berkeley The American writer inhabits a country at once the... | |
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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. 
