Bishop Berkeley. 1684-1753.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;[312:2]
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
Can Love be controlled by Advice?[312:3]
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.[312:4]
Siris. Par. 217.
Footnotes
[312:2] See Daniel, page 39.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.—John Quincy Adams: Oration at Plymouth, 1802.
[312:3] Aiken: Vocal Poetry (London, 1810).
[312:4]
Cups
That cheer but not inebriate.
Cowper: The Task, book iv.