 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.  Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 781823Full view - About this book
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 758 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...truth of this assertion may be illustrated by the following quotation from Shakespeare. The cluud-clapt tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples,...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 "... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1827 - 506 pages
...And at the end of all sublunary things, when " The solemn temples, The great globe itself, and all which it inherit, Shall dissolve ; and like the baseless fabric Of a vision, leave not a wreck behind ;" this hallowed edifice will inherit a kind of immortality, in that eternal bliss, which it will have... | |
 | St. Cross (Church : Oxford, England) - 1876 - 456 pages
...The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself With all who it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." 190 THE SUN-FLOWER. The family of Acland derives its name according to Prince in his "Life of Sir .John... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Jacob Zeitlin - 1913 - 532 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... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 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... | |
 | Samuel Gordon Heiskell - 1921 - 852 pages
...forgotten when our own glorious institutions, with all civilization everywhere, shall pass away forever and 'like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.' "Bearing away to other scenes, and sketching only, where history would write a volume we gather in... | |
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