...His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how could its...

...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 four first acts...the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter...

...and yotmg, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts...the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their...

...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 the last. 1073 Siris Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. 1074 Three Dialogues between...

...vierten Strophe seines Gedichts, dessen oft zitierte sechste und letzte Strophe lautet: "Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...the Drama 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,...

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

...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...

...fresh and young, When heav'nly Flame did animate her Clay, By future Poets shall be sung. Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...the 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...

...Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools . . . Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts...the Drama 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...

...genesis is mandated by the laws of history: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Times noblest offspring is the last. (lines 21-24)69 In such poems, the operative term is Progress:...