 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 стор.
...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A ffth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1730. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SARAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,... | |
 | 1846 - 484 стор.
...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 hut. THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE. VOL. XL FEBRUARY, 1846. No. 4. INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. WHETHER that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 стор.
...fresh 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...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. — Warton. understand English, begin to relish our authors ; and I am informed that at Florence they... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 стор.
...fresh 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...the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. LESSON XXVIII. Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus. — TK HERVKY. FLUTES in the sunny air, And an echo... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1847 - 268 стор.
...fresh and young, When heavenly fame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." And if we consider the rapid strides with which those countries have attained their present position... | |
 | Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 286 стор.
...New World is language-at-its-end (metaphor, figurd), and thus, a grammar of eschatology: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first acts...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.17 Bishop George Berkeley's sentiment expressed an understanding common to the time, that the... | |
 | Arthur Herman - 1997 - 538 стор.
...part of a much older process, the westward movement of civilization and universal empire: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last.2 Today the term "empire" conjures up images of imperialism and exploitation. However, by strict... | |
 | Richard Drinnon - 1997 - 614 стор.
..."Westward the course of empire takes its way," Bishop Berkeley had written in 1726: The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. In his enormously popular Our Country (1885) the Reverend Josiah Strong of the American Home Missionary... | |
 | Zeese Papanikolas - 1998 - 208 стор.
...and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. George Berkeley Coyote's Return All along Coyote's path were signs stuck to the telephone poles and... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 стор.
...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... | |
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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. 
