| Germaine Warkentin - 2006 - 599 oldal
...written with the closed certitude of the imperial mind: West-ward the course of Empire takes its -way; The first four acts already past A fifth shall close...with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. "Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America" (1752) 33 It is probable that almost... | |
| Costică Brădățan - 2006 - 252 oldal
...received special interest from commentators: 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. (Berkeley 1948-57: 7:370 [America]) In trying to interpret the... | |
| Leonard Tennenhouse - 2009 - 176 oldal
...would call "the rising glory of 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. (21-24) First written in 1724 and published in a revised form in 1752, Berkeley's poem had a curious... | |
| William Riebsame Travis - 2007 - 304 oldal
...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, Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Sciences in America (1726) IT WAS... | |
| S. Morris Engel, Angelika Soldan, Kevin Durand - 2007 - 484 oldal
...poem concluded with the following stanza: 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. Because of a navigation error, Berkeley's ship landed in Newport,... | |
| Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - 236 oldal
...such as Europe breeds in her decay; . . . 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.13 The transforming nature of the 'space between' — the Atlantic voyage, the 3000 miles' separation,... | |
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