 | Sally A. Kitt Chappell - 2002 - 252 pàgines
...have been endorsed by an Anglican bishop, George Berkeley (1685-1753), who wrote: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already...shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. White people saw settling the West as an inevitable movement of progress and... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pàgines
...did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its sway; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 9 Berkeley's imagery rested on several key assumptions worthy of notice because... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 pàgines
...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.2 What moves Berkeley's poem is not its treatment of an ancient commonplace,... | |
 | Felicity Nussbaum - 2003 - 410 pàgines
...concluding on an emphatically prophetic note: "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" (21-24). (In the original version, the final line has more apocalyptic overtones:... | |
 | Devorah Knaff - 2004 - 340 pàgines
...us labor and pray ' Prof. WD Whitney. that his well-known vision may be true: "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already...shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." 6 The epoch in which we build. A single word in conclusion. The possible relations... | |
 | Amanda Gilroy - 2004 - 224 pàgines
...Arts and Learning in America', he writes: 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.12 But when he wrote this, in 1752, George Berkeley had been Bishop of Cloyne... | |
 | John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 pàgines
...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; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Washington, Jefferson, and other founders believed that the United States would... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pàgines
...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. GEORGE BERKELEY IRISH (1685-1753) Paul Revere's Ride Listen, my children, and... | |
 | Tiziano Bonazzi - 2005 - 232 pàgines
...e ultimo, atto dell'espansione europea, sebbene non ancora pienamente compiuta: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already...shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last* I fondatori della nuova Università della California furono così affascinati... | |
 | Andrew Valls - 2005 - 306 pàgines
...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, The World's great Effort is the last. (W, 7:370) Berkeley saw himself as playing a role in the development... | |
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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. 
