 | Jean-Gabriel Peltier - 1795 - 448 pages
...the gorgeous palace», The solemn femples, the grest globe ilself, Yea, ail wich ir inherif, siiall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Horace succède à Shakespeare , et le dauphin lit dani Horace , Rebus in nngustis Appare gf.nerosus... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...thunder-storm, harmony, beauty and utility united — and whose end may, as our great poet expresses it, be " to dissolve and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Let us then commence with the examination of what are called primitive rocks. The cohesion of attraction... | |
 | 1803 - 438 pages
...piece, ca'ltd the Tern pefl. " The cloud cap I towers, the gorgeous pahces, The sslemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall...baseless fabric of a vision,' Leave not a wreck behind." ii - z. No. 15. Political. he following is part Qf the address of the Hon. John Rutledge, of South-Carolina,... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pages
...specimens of this figure : such as, " The cloud-capt tow'rs, 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." Dr. W. Smith in his funeral oration on general Montgomery, who was slain in the attack made by the... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 pages
...hastens to meridian resplendance, before which those phantoms raised by pious jugglers will vanish, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." IN the arsenal of Brussels was another curiosity, which I overlooked in my last—a model of a cannon,... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, this great globe itself, and all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like the baseless fabric of a. vision, leave not a wreck behind." Nor shall it perish then — but being the immediate care of heaven, " the great archangel, •when... | |
 | Thomas Tovey - 1803 - 156 pages
...to grateful and affectionate sentiments towards their superiors, and all equalizing schemes vanish, and, " like the " baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck be" hind." Seeing then that such inestimable benefits as these, and many others, may be attained by... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...conscience with injustice is corrupted. 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 ! We are such -stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. That what... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...,But never task'd for speech. 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 ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on , and our little lii'e Is rounded with a sleep. Our indiscretion... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 pages
...those who have it not, the magnificent pageantries of this poem will pass unreflected, unimpressive, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Personification is surely carried too far when, in the next passage, azotic gas is made the lover of... | |
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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... 
