Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe... A course of elementary reading in science and literature, compiled by J.M. M ... - Page 63edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
| 1859 - 682 pages
...all the men and women merely players ; They have their exits and their entrances, writers. 6. " Our revels now are ended : these our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
| Civil service - 366 pages
...onr actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air ; And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
| Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pages
...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made of; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. PM CCCCLXIII.... | |
| Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 pages
...and the natural order of things. JEx.— " The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a rack behind."—Shakespeare. But the mind sometimes disregards... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 pages
...cloud-capt towers, tho gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the groat globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." As observed in § 265, battles are among the sublimest spectacles on which the eye can gaze,... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...shall share in the felicity of Heaven, when • the cloud-capt towers, The gorgecms palaces, the solemn temples, The great globe itself yea, all that it inherit, Shall dissolve ; and, like the baseless fabric of a vision. Leave not a wreck behind." 6Ło LOXG as human lips remain unfed, Men... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pages
...fourth act, discovers no limited amount of taste and judgment. It runs thus:— Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1865 - 592 pages
...manhood : — May the gods Direct you to the best ! THE TEMPEST. The Dissolution of all Things. OUR revels now are ended : these our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...mine, with my heart in it. Act iii. Sc. 1. Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Act iii. ,Sc. 3. « Our revels now are ended : these our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1865 - 116 pages
...distempered. Pro. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismayed : be cheerful, sir ; Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
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