...without a mind. 1072 Oratlon at Plymouth Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four K L U V W X Q R S T Y Z [ c d e 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. 1074 Three Dialogues between Hylas and...

...dessen oft zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last". Der Einfluss des Gedichts war enorm. Berkeley ist, so Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, der Trompeter, der...

...famous poem put it, in appropriately theatrical terms: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.16 Millennialist expectation powered the exegetical process (and vice versa), an enthusiasm that...

...pondered the line with which he closed it: 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. Notes PREFACE 1. Poe, "A Descent into the Maelstrom," 556-57. 2. Galgacus rallied his followers...

...(i/mlpt. i, sect. 6 4 Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, Л fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. 'On the Prospect of Planting Arts and [.earning in America' H7S2lst. h. Irving Berlin (Israel Baline)...

...truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools . . . Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. — Bishop George Berkeley The American writer inhabits a country at once the dream of Europe and a...

...Flame did animate 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...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.5 Berkeley's description of a westward course of empire helped provincial Americans articulate...

...Planting Arts and Learning in America" begins as follows: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley, a proper patriot, was referring to the British in America as time's noblest offspring. Friedrich...

...did animate 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...with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last.« 454 "Brief von Benjamin Franklin an Charles Wilson Peale, 4. July 1771", zitiert nach: P. Freese (ed.),...

...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* During the Revolution, "A Poem on the Rising Glory of America," written by two Princeton seniors, Hugh...