 | William Barrows - 1887 - 460 pàgines
...Works of George Berkeley, DD Eraser's Edition. Oxford, 1871. vol. iii. pp. 215-231. " 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. " * One George Webb,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1891 - 840 pàgines
...lines of which are familiar to all who know the history of education in the new world : " 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." These lines were... | |
 | John Bird Finch - 1888 - 312 pàgines
...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 first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." IV. EXAMINATION... | |
 | Nathaniel Pitt Langford - 1890 - 552 pàgines
...that knows no parallel, and which fills the full measure of Berkeley's prophecy, — " Westward the course of Empire takes Its way. The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with tlie day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." INDEX. Acquittal... | |
 | Richard Harcourt - 1890 - 350 pàgines
...of arts; The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. 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." And yet I have no... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1890 - 458 pàgines
...poem which Berkeley wrote as he was striving to realise a New Atlantis in Rhode Island ? 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. Two years of literary... | |
 | Henry Bruce - 1890 - 356 pàgines
...philosophers is principally remembered now by reason of three snatches of verse ; his own " 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 its last." Pope's " Manners... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pàgines
...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 first four acts already past, The fifth shall olose the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. GEORGE BERKELEY... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1890 - 470 pàgines
...poem which Berkeley wrote as he was striving to realise a New Atlantis in Rhode Island ? 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. Two years of literary... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 pàgines
...happiness of the prospect he penned these now celebrated lines, prophetic of the future — " Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama of the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. " Berkeley sailed... | |
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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. 
