 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 sidor
...gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the groat globe itself, Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Tempest, Act IV. Sc. 4. The elevation of the mind in the former part of this beautiful passage, makes... | |
 | 610 sidor
...gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve} And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." MAN, in his present state, is subject to so many changes, — such variety of uncontrollable events... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 sidor
...thousand more valuable, they all must perish. " The earth, and all that it inhabit, shall dissolve, and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind ;" but our spirits were made to live for ever. There is another body, a better country, prepared for... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Thayer - 1819 - 230 sidor
...countless ages shall have rolled away, when " this great globe, and all that it inherits, shall dissolve, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind," eternity is just commencing. Dear Julia, shall I not indulge the pleasing idea, that the chain of our... | |
 | 1819 - 494 sidor
...Author. For, without his upholding hand The great globe itself, Yea, all that it inhabit, must dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind." Every thing around us strongly intimates the gracious interpa* sition and constant energy oi God. The... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 sidor
...adio," warbled Miss Parkins. " I vanish," said Mrs. Apsley, snatching up her tippet, ridicule, &c. " and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." " Fare-thee-well at once — Adieu, adieu, adieu, remember me!" cried the last of the band, as she... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1819 - 390 sidor
...continue still, and flourish, till -" The great globe itself, And all Ivhich it inherit, be destroyed, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." HAD we leisure, it would be an interesting and entertaining research to trace its progress through... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1820 - 408 sidor
...rights and liberties, before which kings and priests, crowns and mitres, thrones and monasteries, will be swept away, and like the baseless fabric of a vision leave not a wreck behind; you, Sir, are a bright example of the inefficacy of bolts, bars, aud dungeons, to stifle the voice... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 sidor
...palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, Yea, all that it inhabits, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." ' 328. The effect of this figure is peculiarly pleasant, when the gradation of the sentiment is denoted... | |
 | 1820 - 730 sidor
...gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all that it inhabit, shall dissolve, and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind !' ' Fallida mors «quo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres.' He! (hear!} who but a few short... | |
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The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. 
