 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pages
...The 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... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...spouting, and imitated him inimitably in Prosperous lines: — ' Yea, the great globe itself, And all which it inherit, 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 "... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Violet Brooke-Hunt - 1902 - 442 pages
..." 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." Burns and Sir Walter Scott greet us from their niches ; Grote and Thirlwall, the truth-loving writers... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 464 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... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1903 - 438 pages
...The cloud-capped 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." In recognition of the spirit and of the high custom of our predecessors the present volume... | |
 | William Richard Harris - 1905 - 278 pages
...design that at first glance the mind refused to accept the ruined city as a reality. I looked for it to dissolve, and, "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Buried in a dense tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitoes, scorpions, snakes and centipedes,... | |
 | Frederick Treves - 1906 - 414 pages
...The cloud capp'd lowers, 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." Certain unwonted features in Swanage are due to the circumstance that two quarrymen of... | |
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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. 
