 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...Locke, 32 while George Berkeley declared, 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. 33 America came to be identified with the future - the French-born author J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur... | |
 | Ian Carter - 2001 - 362 páginas
...Arts and Learning in America ( 1 683): 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. Stevenson makes his Spenglerian point through colour, comparing mornings at home and abroad. There... | |
 | William A. Shutkin - 2001 - 300 páginas
...of Planting Arts and Learning in America: 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.2 The sheer size of the Rocky Mountain states has afforded the unique opportunity to live close... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 páginas
...Locke,32 while George Berkeley declared, 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.33 America came to be identified with the future - the French-born author J. Hector St John de... | |
 | Sally A. Kitt Chappell - 2002 - 252 páginas
...George Berkeley (1685-1753), who wrote: 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. White people saw settling the West as an inevitable movement of progress and themselves as "Time's... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 páginas
...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 they were shared by... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 páginas
...flames 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.2 What moves Berkeley's poem is not its treatment of an ancient commonplace, as compelling as... | |
 | John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 páginas
...the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America": 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. Washington, Jefferson, and other founders believed that the United States would grow and surpass its... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Amanda Gilroy - 2004 - 224 páginas
...of Planting 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...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. 
