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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 Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch and ... - Page 158
by Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 460 pages
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

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...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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 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...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...
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Johann Gottfried von Herder's Sämmtliche Werke ...

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...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 7

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...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...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

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...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

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 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,...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 13

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 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 drama with the day : " Time's noblest offspring is the last. - ' This will be a mighty revolution, noi brought about by...
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Voyage to South America, Volume 1

Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1820 - 334 pages
...attraction to the whole world. We shall then verify 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 with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last." This will be a mighty re volution, not brought about by wars,...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3

George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 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...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...
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Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq

Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay — By future poets shall be sung. " VI. 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." vrhere he conceived that, consequently, a general diffusion...
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