 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
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...cloud-capt towels — 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." And alas! the ravages of time, though rapid and resistless, are too slow to satisfy the furious rage... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Dublin - Irish literature - 1808 - 428 pages
...capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, " The solemn temples, the great globe itself, " Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve, " And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, " Leave not a wreck behind." SHAKESPEARE. We always had, notwithstanding the respectable Dr. Shaw's idea to the contrary, a conception... | |
 | J P. Hurstone - 1808 - 136 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." Life is uncertain in every stage of humanity; how much more so then in the advanced one to which you... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, " The solemn temples, the great globe itself, '' Yea, all that it inhabit, shall dissolve, " And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, " Leave not a wreck behind." By pretended correction, when we reprove ourselves, that we may seem to speak without artifice or partiality... | |
 | Gaelic society of Dublin - 1808 - 410 pages
...palaces, ff The solemn temples, the great globe itself, " Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve, <e And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, " Leave not a wreck behind." SHAKESPEARE. We always had, notwithstanding the respectable Dr. Shaw's idea to the contrary, a conception... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...tovv'rs, 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." But the promises and threatenings of the holy writings shall be receiving their awful completion, upon... | |
 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - Medicine - 1809 - 434 pages
...the patient, and the chance of immediately obviating danger by ptyalism, they " Are melted into air, And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." Another objection is founded upon the well known fact of syphilis yielding often nearly as well to... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Geography - 1810 - 410 pages
...solemn temples and splendid cities, when the world itself, and all its inhabitants, must pass away, " and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." VOLCANOES. THE Encyclopedia says, we are acquainted with t much less than 100 volcanoes; but it gives... | |
 | Joseph Blacket - 1811 - 340 pages
...voice, Loud as when heav'n's immortal thund'rer speaks, Pronounce the dreadful fiat of the!world! " The cloud-capt tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn...baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind !" Behold too, on the proudly-winding Thames, Who wafts the bulwarks of our Albion's hope To seas,... | |
 | Portuguese poetry - 1812 - 328 pages
...the gorgeous Palaces , • ,•, The solemn Temples•, the great glob it self, \ Yea, ali v. hich it inherit , shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vision , Leave not a wreck behind. Sha tcipeare. í «n .. , A espaços sem medida!... ' i.;&(í Quando da Guerra ailardeando as Scenis... | |
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