 | Anna Seward - Physicians - 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... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palace*, 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. A Barrfs Epitaph, Is there a whim inspired fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, Owre blate... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1807 - 312 pages
...cloud : capt towers ; the gorgeous palaces ; the solemn temples; yea, the great globe itself, with all which it inherits, • shall dissolve, and like...baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." We shall survive. Though the loss of parents and friends ; though the frequent infirmities and vicissitudes... | |
 | Sir Charles Sedley - 1807 - 606 pages
...gorgeous pa. " laces, " 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 ! THE END. The Author has the honour to announce, that he is busily engaged in the collection of curious... | |
 | M. Bailey - 1807 - 38 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces,, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea all which it inherit s-hall dissolve ; and like The baseless fabric of a vision, leave not 'A wreck behind. - ' Sic transit Gloria Mundi-, •WHILST the righteous soul secure in existe•nce•y rule's at the... | |
 | Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807 - 218 pages
...gorgeous pa" laces, " 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! THE END. POSTSCRIPT. The Author has the honour to an-nounce, that he is busily engaged in the collection... | |
 | Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807 - 218 pages
...gorgeous pa" laces, " 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! THE END. POSTSCRIPT. The Author has the honour to announce, that he is busily engaged in the collection... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...wealth founded upon the virtues, the toils, and the blood of her revolutionary armies soon vanish, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind. 13th. The republic of America; may her goTernmeot have public good for its object, ami be purged of... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - Chronology, Historical - 1807 - 258 pages
...• The. solemn temples. ...the great glebe Useif.j Yea, all which it inherits, 8l,a.l4issolve — . 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... | |
 | J P. Hurstone - 1808 - 136 pages
...Duke, you are not immortal; for " The cloud cap'd 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." Life is uncertain in every stage of humanity; how much more so then in the advanced one to which you... | |
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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... 
