 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
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 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. We are such stuff As dreams are made cf, and our little lifo Is rounded with a sleep." To most of my... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 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 pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." What is our consolation ? What, in the pure light of Scripture, do we look for? 2 Peter, iii. 13. "... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 270 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 Pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind! — Go then, Thou grand One of the Present, grandly into the Past. And for the Future, Leave no trace... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...clond-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." SPIRIT OF EARTHQUAKE. BY JOHN G. DUNN, ESQ. 'Twas the noon of a winter night, dreary and dark ; The... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, — Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.' '' Thus the spirit of this age describes the closing of the Great Exhibition, in language which a niedioeval... | |
 | 1851 - 636 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack bohind." Wednesday, the 15th of October, was the final day. With the exception of members of the government,... | |
 | Augusta Browne - Biography & Autobiography - 1852 - 216 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 ;" — and paused for him to take it up and proceed, as was his custom, he merely corrected me, mechanically... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 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 pageant faded Leave not a rack behind : we are such stuff Ai dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. I may also... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, tlie great globe itself, Yea, all which il inherit, shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." The Tempest, Few people can look back into the past without a sigh. Even the most fortunate among us,... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, 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. Moses, in the tenth chapter of the book of Genesis, tells us that Nimrod, one of the grandsons... | |
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