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. Things, as They Were, as They Are, and as They Ought to be: A Poem : with an ... - Side 39af Thomas Tovey - 1803 - 140 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1819 - 390 sider
...continue still, and flourish, till -" The great globe itself, And all Ivhich it inherit, be destroyed, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." HAD we leisure, it would be an interesting and entertaining research to trace its progress... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 sider
...gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the groat globe itself, Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Tempest, Act IV. Sc. 4. The elevation of the mind in the former part of this beautiful passage,... | |
| 1820 - 730 sider
...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 !' ' Fallida mors «quo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres.' He! (hear!} who but... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 sider
...palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, Yea, all that it inhabits, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." ' 328. The effect of this figure is peculiarly pleasant, when the gradation of the sentiment... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1820 - 408 sider
...liberties, before which kings and priests, crowns and mitres, thrones and monasteries, will be swept away, and like the baseless fabric of a vision leave not a wreck behind; you, Sir, are a bright example of the inefficacy of bolts, bars, aud dungeons, to stifle the... | |
| John Newton - 1821 - 710 sider
...is 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... | |
| Collection - 1821 - 336 sider
...palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, and all yvhich it inherits, shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind. JAMES THOMSON, JEtatis 48, obit 27, August, 1748. Tutor'd by thee, sweet poetry, exalts her... | |
| Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 sider
...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... | |
| 1821 - 780 sider
....-orgeous 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!" " O death ! it is thine to tread out empires, and to quench the stars!'' While thus tossed... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 sider
...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. JAMES F. LA.VXTHEE. 184 NOTES BY A MISSIONARY. No. VI. " In that day there shall be an altar... | |
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