 | Felicity Nussbaum - 2003 - 410 стор.
..."The rise of Empire and of Arts" (13-14), concluding on an emphatically prophetic note: "Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; / The four first Acts...with the Day; / Time's noblest Offspring is the last" (21-24). (In the original version, the final line has more apocalyptic overtones: "The world's great... | |
 | Willa Cather - 2003 - 332 стор.
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 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 стор.
...fresh and young, When heavenly flames did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.2 What moves Berkeley's poem is not its treatment of an ancient commonplace, as compelling as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 2004 - 428 стор.
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 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 стор.
...fresh and young, When heav'nly 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. GEORGE BERKELEY IRISH (1685-1753) Paul Revere's Ride Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the... | |
 | John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 стор.
...this theory in his "Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America": Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Washington, Jefferson, and other founders believed that the United States would grow and surpass its... | |
 | Amanda Gilroy - 2004 - 224 стор.
...debacle. In his poem 'On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America', he writes: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.12 But when he wrote this, in 1752, George Berkeley had been Bishop of Cloyne for more than twenty... | |
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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. 
