 The cloud-capt towers, the 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 ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our...  Souvenirs of Travel - Page 13by Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 pages
...empire in India would not last for a single moment ; and, if it once passed away, it would vanish, " and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.'' They might perhaps imagine that there was no chance of any foreign invasion of India. But he would... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 pages
...coming, when all honours and possessions, but this which cometh of God only, will be eclipsed and vanish, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." How miserable will they then be, who must leave their all! What a mortifying thought does Horace put... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1824 - 766 pages
...prognosticates by its convulsions the approaching solemnities of its departure — " When all that it inherits shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vis-ion, not a wreck behind." KND OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PEN A LUNA, PRINTKR, HGLSTON. L Jfr ... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...earthly vanities fade, and which, to use the words of the great bard of renowned and sacred memory, " Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." One barrier still remains, to impede this smiling victory and this glorious consummation of all St.... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - 1964 - 644 pages
...and other markets. One half of its "reports" and "rumors" are the pure inventions of the imagination, and "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind," save the painful memory of deceit and imposition. As far as its transmission of intelligence, respecting... | |
 | Martin Roth - 1968 - 142 pages
...and drapery, executed by DWC the figures by that promising artist, Morgan Rattler. 78 "Shall fall, And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." 1 "We are joined with none but nobility; such as will strike sooner than drink, and drink sooner than... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 pages
...poetry: "the cloud-capt towers, the solemn temples, the gorgeous palaces," are swept to the ground, and "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." All the traditions of learning, all the superstitions of age, are obliterated and effaced. We begin... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...tow'rs, 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 rack behind, — Tempest, Act 4. Scene 4. The elevation of the mind in the former part of this beautiful... | |
 | Bill Kaysing, Randy Reid - 1997 - 96 pages
...all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And like the bas«less fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The...Yea, all which It Inherits, shall dissolve; And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - 1998 - 690 pages
...erected in these ends of the earth. for an asylum to suffering humanity. should so soon be dissolved. and. "Like the baseless fabric of a vision. Leave not a wreck behind." From that Humphreys and his colleagues then lamented the loss. not only of revolutionary spirit. but... | |
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