 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
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 342 pages
...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And like this unsubstantial Pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind ! l Go then, Thou grand One of the Present, Grandly into the Past ! And for the Future, Leave no trace... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeons 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 : use are such stuff As dreams are made ont and our II'. tl- life Is rounded «nth a sleep. The lines... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 684 pages
...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, i'ea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve : And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack behind : \vc are such stuff As dreams are made of.' I could not help repeating those beautiful lines as I... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...cloud-capped 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." This, we contend, is no mere poetic phrensy, inserted because it was dramatically suitable... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - Great Britain - 1856 - 440 pages
...the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, — Yea all which it inherits, — shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." How severe he is on the poor actor in Hamlet, and still more so in Troilus and Cressida.... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - England - 1856 - 442 pages
...the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, — Yea all which it inherits, — shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." How severe he is on the poor actor in Hamlet, and still more so in Troilus and Cressida.... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1856 - 412 pages
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind ; we are such stuff As dreams are made of." Like towers of God, far seen on Carmel mount, Or Lebanon,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1860 - 290 pages
...the waiters called rack punch ; the fifty thousand additional lamps ; the hermit's cave ; all, all shall dissolve, " And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." Only can I imagine the hermit, grown to be a very old and toothless man — toothless and drivelling... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 514 pages
...The solemn temples, the great globe itself. Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like an unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind....dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd. 1861.] IS POVERTY A CRIME. Why do people pass him by, With ihcir half-averted... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself — Yea, aTTwhich it inherit', shall dissolve', And, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded' — Leave' not a rack' behind'. 7. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep fiilleth on men, fear came upon me, and... | |
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