 | Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...was compelled by the refusal of Government to furnish him with funds for his college, to forego this work of heroic, or rather godlike, benevolence ; though...the day — Time's noblest offspring is its last." Our missionary friends, now assembling from all parts, will know what use to make of this anecdote... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1846 - 262 pages
...her clay, By future 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. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1846 - 528 pages
...clay, By future 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." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first 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... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...Planting Arts and Learning in America": Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the Day; Times noblest Offspring is the last. Neither Beveridge nor many other nineteenth-century Americans... | |
 | Gray A. Brechin - History - 1999 - 434 pages
...which George Berkeley opened his quatrain. Few pondered the line with which he closed it: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts...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 by... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "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". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, der Trompeter,... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - History - 1999 - 342 pages
...it, in appropriately theatrical terms: 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.16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa), an enthusiasm... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...future empire in America, an empire whose genesis is mandated by the laws of history: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts...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:... | |
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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. 
