 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 302by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1843 - 524 pages
...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 free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office... | |
 | Irishman - 1843 - 258 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. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter to lord... | |
 | George Berkeley - Philosophy, Modern - 1843 - 470 pages
...heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth...the day : • Time's noblest offspring is the last. A SERMON, INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Electronic journals - 1883 - 408 pages
...rehearse, Waits now in distant lands for better times, 1'roducing subjects worthy verse. Westward the course of Empire takes its way. The four first acts...past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day, The world's great effort is the last." Under date, Trinity, June 4th, 1723, he writes to Percival :... | |
 | Gray A. Brechin - History - 1999 - 434 pages
...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 his followers... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...(i/mlpt. i, sect. 6 4 Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, Л fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. 'On the Prospect of Planting Arts and [.earning in America' H7S2lst. h. Irving Berlin (Israel Baline)... | |
 | James M. Jasper - Social Science - 2009 - 328 pages
...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...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. — Bishop George Berkeley The American writer inhabits a country at once the dream of Europe and a... | |
 | Ned C. Landsman - History - 2000 - 244 pages
...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...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.5 Berkeley's description of a westward course of empire helped provincial Americans articulate... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...genesis is mandated by the laws of history: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Times noblest offspring is the last. (lines 21-24)69 In such poems, the operative term is Progress:... | |
 | Frank Trommler, Elliott Shore - History - 2001 - 372 pages
...The poem "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America" begins as follows: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley, a proper patriot, was referring to the British in America as time's noblest offspring. Friedrich... | |
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