 These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 121edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 330 pages
...cloud.capt towers, the gorgeous palaces* The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind To these noble images Re adds a short but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 440 pages
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. — My work is done. [Breaks his Wand. Henceforth this land to the afflicted be A place of refuge,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...cloud capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.' " Tempest. Now it appears to us, upon 'a consideration of these and many such like passages, that there... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 876 pages
...292. •f- SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS ; Mr. Pope's Second Edition, 1728. Vol. I. — Tempest, p. 57: Prosp. shall dissolve And like this unsubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind. Probably track or trace. Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 79 : Lys. either it was different in blood —... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack hehind —— To these noble images he adds a short, but comprehensive observation on human life, not... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind To these noble images he adds a short, but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...clond-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces. The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, , And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.— To these noble images he adds a short but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 830 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. — Sir, I am vcx'd ; Bear with my weakness ! my old brain is troubled. Bcnotdistnrb'd with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which That for thine own gain : We are such stall' As dreams are made of, ami our little life Is rounded with a sleep. — Sir, I... | |
 | History - 1826 - 438 pages
...The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all, which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like the unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. And though the language of inspiration fall from his lips, though the wisdom of ages be compressed... | |
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