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 Stillman Greene - English language - 1874 - 336 pages
...like the baseless fabric of this vision, 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. And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud... | |
| Robert McCheyne Edgar - 1874 - 390 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." Shakespeare's Tempest, Act. iv. Sc. 1. But I would ask your attention rather more particularly to the... | |
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 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...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest, iv. I. CV.—THE VOYAGE OF THE PELICAN. In 1577, Queen Elizabeth authorized Francis... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 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. SHAKSPEARE. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May... | |
| Mandell Creighton (bp. of London.) - 1876 - 268 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. In Shakespeare the glory of the Elizabethan drama was at its height. His youth saw the wild... | |
| Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself ; Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant,...dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded With a sleep ! — Shakspearc. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ! But... | |
| James Madison Watson - Readers - 1876 - 346 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself — • Yea, an" which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded — Leave not a rack behind. 4- I am thy father's spirit ; Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And, JOT the day confined... | |
| James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1876 - 348 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itsfelf — Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded — Leave not a rack behind. 4. I am thy father's spirit ; Doomed for a certain term to waTE the nighl, And, for the day confined... | |
| James Rees - Bible and literature - 1876 - 200 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,"]) finds its parallel in Scripture : — 1 Cor. vii. 31, " The fashion of this world shall pass away."... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which n a sleep. — Shakespeare. 3286. LIFE: up-hill. DOES the road wind up-hill all the way ? Yes, to the... | |
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