 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...of spouting, and imitated him inimitably in Prospero's lines : " ' Yea, the great globe itself, it shall dissolve, " ' And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, " ' Leave not a rack behind !' " When half seas over, Kemble used to " speak in blank-verse : and with prac" tice,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself. Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless...a vision Leave not a wreck behind.— Shakespeare. III. — Examples of SUSPENSION ; or a delaying of ihe Sense. 1. AS beauty of person, with an agreeable... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pages
...cluud-clapt tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea. all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Every person perceives that this passage is sublime ; but, whence does its Sublimity originate? Observe... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1825 - 282 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,... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." Cast thine eye around thee, and see the thousands of nature's productions. Take a view of them from... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1923 - 454 pages
...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 wrack behind. "That stone there covers Campbell the poet. Here are names you know pretty well — Milton,... | |
 | Squire Bancroft - 1925 - 276 pages
...cloudcapt 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 wrack behind.' What grandeur, what pathos, are in the words ; but we will not believe them — at least... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 600 pages
...wealth founded upon the virtues, the toils, and the blood of her revolutionary armies soon vanish, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind. 1 3th. The republic of America; may her government have public good for its object, and be purged of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1928 - 374 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... | |
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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. 
