 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how could its intense interest... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 pages
...the country where he had sojourned. " 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." Thus disappointed in his ambition of keeping a school for savage children, at a salary of... | |
 | Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 494 pages
...the country where he had sojourned. " ' 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.'" 1 Before quitting this subject, it may be proper to mention, that many years after his... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1846 - 262 pages
...schools. There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage The wisest heads and noblest hearts....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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...without a mind. 1072 Oratlon at Plymouth Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four K L U V W X Q R S T Y Z [ c d e 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. 1074 Three Dialogues between Hylas and... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...vierten Strophe seines Gedichts, dessen oft zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, der Trompeter, der... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - History - 1999 - 342 pages
...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...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa), an enthusiasm that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...Arts." He finished with the following lines, repeated countless times after their initial appearance: Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heav'nly Flame did animate her Clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the Course of Empire takes... | |
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There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame... 
