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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. "
A Defence of the Drama: Containing Mansel's Free Thoughts, Extracts from the ... - Page 198
1826 - 294 pages
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Histoire de la Révolution Du 10 Aoust 1792: Des Causes Qui L'ont Produite ...

Jean-Gabriel Peltier - 1795 - 448 pages
...the gorgeous palace», The solemn femples, the grest globe ilself, Yea, ail wich ir inherif, siiall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Horace succède à Shakespeare , et le dauphin lit dani Horace , Rebus in nngustis Appare gf.nerosus...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 52

Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...thunder-storm, harmony, beauty and utility united — and whose end may, as our great poet expresses it, be " to dissolve and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Let us then commence with the examination of what are called primitive rocks. The cohesion of attraction...
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The Balance, and Columbian Repository, Volume 2

1803 - 438 pages
...towers, the gorgeous pahces, The sslemn 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." ii - z. No. 15. Political. he following is part Qf the address of the Hon. John Rutledge, of South-Carolina,...
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The Port Folio, Volume 4

1810 - 702 pages
...tow'rs, 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." Dr. W. Smith in his funeral oration on general Montgomery, who was slain in the attack made by the...
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A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings by Shipwreck ...

Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 pages
...hastens to meridian resplendance, before which those phantoms raised by pious jugglers will vanish, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." IN the arsenal of Brussels was another curiosity, which I overlooked in my last—a model of a cannon,...
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The Washingtoniana: Containing a Sketch of the Life and Death of the Late ...

1802 - 440 pages
..." the cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, this great globe itself, and all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like the baseless fabric of a. vision, leave not a wreck behind." Nor shall it perish then — but being the immediate care of heaven, " the great archangel, •when...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...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." But the promises and threatenings of the Holy Writings all be receiving their awful completion, upon...
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Things, as They Were, as They Are, and as They Ought to be: A Poem : with an ...

Thomas Tovey - 1803 - 156 pages
...to grateful and affectionate sentiments towards their superiors, and all equalizing schemes vanish, and, " like the " baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck be" hind." Seeing then that such inestimable benefits as these, and many others, may be attained by...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
..., 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 little lii'e Is rounded with a sleep. Our indiscretion...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...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 little life Is rounded with a sleep. That what...
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