 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...tow'rs, the gorgeous 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 pages
...towers, the 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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1820 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 780 pages
...cloud capp'd towers, the .-orgeous 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!" " O death ! it is thine to tread out empires, and to quench the stars!'' While thus tossed on the expansive... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, and all yvhich it inherits, shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind. JAMES THOMSON, JEtatis 48, obit 27, August, 1748. Tutor'd by thee, sweet poetry, exalts her voice to... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 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. — Indeed, there was ocular demonstration in the truth of this assertion, with respect to its towers,... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 710 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... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...memento of that rapidly approaching period, when The cloudcapt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all that it...baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. JAMES F. LA.VXTHEE. 184 NOTES BY A MISSIONARY. No. VI. " In that day there shall be an altar to the... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1822 - 578 pages
...cloud-oapt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the ftreatplobe itself; Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." And alas ! the ravages of time, though rapid ^ resistless, are too slow to satisfy the furious rage... | |
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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. 
