 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 Pamphleteer - Page 63edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...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. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August J, 1728,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...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. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 802 pages
...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, were first published in a Miscellany which i... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...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 men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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 of all his bustle, and with his whole soul on the stretch... | |
 | 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...offspring is the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in which all will find an interest,... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1820 - 336 pages
...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...offspring is the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in which all will find an interest,... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1820 - 334 pages
...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...noblest offspring is the last." This will be a mighty re volution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in which all will find... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...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 THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS; AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...S^^^^JJ^BBi**'""' " • IH u*l III \0* »!• * in -ri-Jr— j.jjjam.mii-T - ii— ' " •" 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 INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS,... | |
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