 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.  Poems - Page 300by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 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...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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 422 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...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,... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 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, tmb... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 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...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.' * The very day before he sailed, in the midst of all his bustle, and with his whole soul on the stretch... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 578 pages
...poetic prediction of Bishop BERKELEY : : , " Westward the course of empire takes its way, " The tour first acts already past; " A fifth shall close the...the day : " Time's noblest offspring is the last. - ' This will be a mighty revolution, noi brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice, but one... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 572 pages
.... !••.::. " Westward the course of empire takes its way, K • .•-• !> "The (bur first arts already past; .. . " A fifth shall close the drama...••• .• " Time's noblest offspring is the last." ..t This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, 'by injustice, but one... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1819 - 390 pages
...of bishop BERKELEY. "Westward the coarse of empire takes its way, The four first acts already pa*; A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...prediction of Bishop BERKELEY : " Westward the course of empire takes its way, " The 'bur first acts ulteady past ; '•' A fifth shall close the drama with the day: " Time's noblest offspring b the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by^wars, by violence, by injustice,... | |
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