 | 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...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 office... | |
 | 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...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 lord... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 страници
...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...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its intense interest... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 страници
...of 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. Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children, at a salary of... | |
 | Arthur Herman - 1997 - 538 страници
...part of a much older process, the westward movement of civilization and universal empire: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last.2 Today the term "empire" conjures up images of imperialism and exploitation. However, by strict... | |
 | Richard Drinnon - 1997 - 614 страници
..."Westward the course of empire takes its way," Bishop Berkeley had written in 1726: The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In his enormously popular Our Country (1885) the Reverend Josiah Strong of the American Home Missionary... | |
 | Zeese Papanikolas - 1998 - 208 страници
...and the prophecy came true. And how many remember the names of the mountains anymore in Las Vegas? There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. George Berkeley Coyote's Return All along Coyote's path were signs stuck to the telephone poles and... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 страници
...circulation through George Berkeley's famous lines, to which John Adams indirectly refers: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...with the Day: Time's noblest Offspring is the last. ( Works, 7:373) This stanza, though first published in 1752 as the conclusion to Berkeley's "On the... | |
 | 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 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. 1074 Three Dialogues between Hylas and... | |
 | 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...with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, der Trompeter, der... | |
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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. 
