 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS. M.D. - 1847 - 530 strani
...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 ; The fifth shall close the drama with the day— Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" and that... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1847 - 628 strani
...without some consoling forethought of the fortune of the country where he had sojourned. The tirst four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Weslvvard ihe course of empire takes its way r TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS ITS LAST. Thus disappointed... | |
 | Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 286 strani
...New World is language-at-its-end (metaphor, figura), and thus, a grammar of eschatology: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first acts...shall close the Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offipning is the last.' 7 Bishop George Berkeley's sentiment expressed an understanding common to the... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - 278 strani
...overturned bower, and with the historical motif of the last act in a providential dramar Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts...past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day. Yet Cotuns would not have approved Bishop Berkeley's final verse: “Time's noblest offspring is the... | |
 | Rob Kroes - 1996 - 218 strani
...Europe), Berkeley wrote his famous lines: 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 the last. "Westward the course of empire" would assume the force of a slogan in the conquest of the American... | |
 | Nathaniel Pitt Langford - 1996 - 356 strani
...full measure of Berkeley's prophecy,— "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 the last." INDEX Bonneville, Capt. 313, 330, 342 Box, Capt. Jim 305, 306Abbott, Joe 306 Adams, Thomas 68 Aden,... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 strani
...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... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - 1998 - 428 strani
...Berkeley's eighteenthcentury "Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America": Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the Day; Times noblest Offspring is the last. Neither Beveridge nor many other nineteenth-century Americans... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - 1999 - 342 strani
...injunction. As Bishop Berkeley's famous poem put it, in appropriately theatrical terms: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last. 16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa), an enthusiasm that would... | |
 | Gray A. Brechin - 1999 - 434 strani
...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... | |
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