...the likely disintegration of Russia and the eventual shift of world economic power to the Pacific. The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime, Barren of...waits a better time. Producing subjects worthy fame. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young. When heavenly fame did...

...Forty years before, they had committed to memory the stirring prediction of Bishop Berkeley : — " The muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time Producing subjects worthy fame. ****** There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring...

...that would vitiate all local attempts at regeneration. Only in America could his plan succeed, where the Muse disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every...glorious theme. In distant lands now waits a better time — In 1735, James Thomson's epic poem Liberty promoted the settlement of Georgia, a similar project...

...Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America" (written in 1726) is a good instance of this sentiment: The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame. (lines 1-4) Berkeley promises "another golden age, / The rise of empire and of the arts," but not "such...

...as we can see in "Berkeleys" — "Verses On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America." "The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame." This stanza shows the growing disgust with all the classic subjects so worn out in Europe. The last...

...AND BARBARA HARSHAV TROM THE AMERICAN STORY On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America The Muse, disgusted at an Age and Clime Barren of...Earth such Scenes ensue, The Force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied Beauties by the true: In happy Climes the Seat of Innocence, Where Nature...

...bishop George Berkeley sat down to reflect with bittersweet melancholy upon England's cultural decline. "The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime / Barren of every glorious theme" had already fled: England was in decay. But culture's muse seemed poised to rule again in the North...

...VERSES ON AMERICA1 VERSES BY THE AUTHOR, ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA. The Muse, disgusted at an Age and Clime, Barren of...Earth such Scenes ensue, The Force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied Beauties by the true: In happy Climes the Seat of Innocence, Where Nature...

...transposes time and space, projecting the rise and fall of empires onto the movement of European migration: The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame ... There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring...