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" 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. "
The Table Book... - Page 496
by William Hone - 1827 - 870 pages
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The Religious Miscellany: Containing Information Relative to the ..., Volume 2

1823 - 426 pages
...wide spreading arch, the pillar of beauty and (he wall of strength shall be dissipated in an instant, and Like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind! JULIUS. JV«jr Shippensburgh, July 18. THE WRECK. They that go de-an to the sea in skips, that <lo...
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Ireland Exhibited to England: In a Political and Moral Survey of ..., Volume 2

Esq. A. Atkinson - Antrim (Ireland : County) - 1823 - 482 pages
...such lessons as, " pride goeth before destruction," it would come tumbling about its owner's ears, " And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind." Of these two modes of Irish hotel police, it would be pleasant to select some living examples, as an...
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Fruits of Enterprize Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia ...

Sarah Atkins - Egypt - 1824 - 280 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea, 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 its towers,...
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Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia ...

Sarah Atkins - Egypt - 1824 - 256 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.— Indeed, there was ocular demonstration in the truth of this assertion, with respect to its towers,...
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Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at ...

Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...and imitated him inimitably in Prospero's 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 don't...
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The Works of the Late Rev. T. Scott, Rector of Aston Sanford, Bucks, Volume 9

Thom Scott - Theology - 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...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 9

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1824 - 830 pages
...empire in India would not last for a single moment ; and, if it once passed away, it would vanish, " and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.'' They might perhaps imagine that there was no chance of any foreign invasion of India. But he would...
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Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...of spouting, and imitated him inimitably in Prospero's lines : " ' Yea, the great globe itself, it 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 prac" tice,...
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The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the ..., Volume 1

John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 738 pages
...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 put...
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Warreniana: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory

William Frederick Deacon - Advertising - 1824 - 256 pages
...descend, (Hear, hear, from Messrs. W- e and B—tt — h,) Shall melt into the air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. I shall detain the house no longer than to return my thanks for the indulgence with which I have been...
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