 | 1823 - 426 páginas
...wide spreading arch, the pillar of beauty and (he wall of strength shall be dissipated in an instant, and Like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind! JULIUS. JV«jr Shippensburgh, July 18. THE WRECK. They that go de-an to the sea in skips, that <lo... | |
 | George Oliver - 1823 - 406 páginas
...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 rack behind."* But the word of God, and every thing founded on that basis, shall never pass away. Even... | |
 | Esq. A. Atkinson - 1823 - 482 páginas
...such lessons as, " pride goeth before destruction," it would come tumbling about its owner's ears, " And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind." Of these two modes of Irish hotel police, it would be pleasant to select some living examples, as an... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 256 páginas
...exclaimed in the words of Shakspeare : The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall...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,... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 280 páginas
...Shakspeare : The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea, 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,... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1824 - 256 páginas
...descend, (Hear, hear, from Messrs. W- e and B—tt — h,) Shall melt into the air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. I shall detain the house no longer than to return my thanks for the indulgence with which I have been... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 314 páginas
...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 practice, I don't... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 758 páginas
...the two verses in the eleventh of Genesis on this subject, may prove ingenuity ; but it must fall, and, ' Like the baseless fabric of a vision, ' Leave not a wreck behind.' God was pleased to scatter mankind : he knew where each tribe or family would eventually settle ; and... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
