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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... "
A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ... - Page 177
by David Simpson - 1803 - 351 pages
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A Compend of History, from the Earliest Times: Comprehending a General View ...

Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...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...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...silence, 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 dissolve; And, like the baseless fabrick of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As -dreams are made of, and our little...
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Transactions [ed. by T. O'Flanagan.].

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...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...the world shall be no more. " The cloud-capt tovv'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits shall...the promises and threatenings of the holy writings shall be receiving their awful completion, upon believers and unbelievers, throughout those never ending...
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The Medical Repository, Volume 6

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...
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A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A General Description of All the ...

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...
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The remains of Joseph Blacket ... and a memoir of his life by mr ..., Volume 2

Joseph Blacket - 1811 - 340 pages
...tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, And all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the 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,...
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Jornal poetico, ou, Collecção das melhores composições, em todo o genero ...

Portuguese poetry - 1812 - 328 pages
...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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The towers of Ravenswold; or, Days of Ironside

William Henry Hitchener - 1813 - 428 pages
...there was light," even that may be overturned, may be snatched away as "all that the earth inherit shall dissolve," and " like the baseless fabric of a vision leave not a wreck behind." > I'his digression we beg our readers to excuse. As the poor afflicted wanderer <iame nearer, she perceived...
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