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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 Christian Examiner - Page 30
1867
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...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,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...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,...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 7

Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 802 pages
...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...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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...
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Humble contributions to a British Plutarch [lives of 7 distinguished men ...

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 360 pages
...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...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 13

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...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 wars, by violence, by injustice, but one...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3

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

Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...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." than that of making me still more sensible of the greatness of my obligation to you, for the very extraordinary...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3

George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...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...
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