| Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 478 pages
...painter-companion : " 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." " Confiding," says Verplanck, in his noble tribute to Berkeley, "in these glorious auguries, and animated... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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... | |
| Daniel Bell - Social Science - 1991 - 408 pages
...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts are already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.4 And more than a hundred years later, Hegel, in his Philosophy of History, remarked: "America... | |
| Avihu Zakai - History - 2002 - 280 pages
...The rise of empire and of arts . . . Westward the course of empire take its way; The four first last acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 77 71 Christopher Columbus cited by Pauline Moffitt Watts, "Prophecy and Discovery: On the Spiritual... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Learning in America 1 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. (1. 21-24) AiP; FaFP; NOEC; OBTV; SeCePo; TrGrPo WENDELL BERRY (b. 1934) The Peace of Wild Things \... | |
| Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1877 - 350 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.8* Miiuls thus certain of their rights, proud of their history, and constitutionally hopeful of... | |
| Robert A. Nisbet - 392 pages
...he wrote in 1726: 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. Timothy Dwight, one of the "Connecticut Wits," added to Berkeley in 1794 the following lines of West-oriented... | |
| Steven Weisenburger - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 340 pages
...have had in mind: 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. Berkeley's five-act, millenial "Drama" is an idea with a lengthy pedigree. What's notable is how West... | |
| Annis Boudinot Stockton - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 366 pages
...Poets shall be sung. 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. For Berkeley and his early eighteenth-century contemporaries, poetry was still, as it had been in the... | |
| Zeese Papanikolas - Social Science - 1998 - 208 pages
...and noblest hearts 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. Coyote's Return George Berkeley All along Coyote's path were signs stuck to the telephone poles and... | |
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