...earthly vanities fade, and which, to use the words of the great bard of renowned and sacred memory, " Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." One barrier still remains, to impede this smiling victory and this glorious consummation of all St....

...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." Cast thine eye around thee, and see the thousands of nature's productions. Take a view of them from...

...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. Indeed, there was ocular demonstration in the truth of this assertion, with respect to its towers,...

...sublime, but how greatly is its Grandeur increased by the assertion that all these . objects of Sublimity shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind 1 That this conclusion is depressing I readily a<> knowledge ; but, at the same time, I conceive that...

...towers, the gorgeous palaces. The solemn temples, the great globe itself, >ea, all whk',h it inherit, shall dissolve. ' And, like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind. The monument of David Garrick contains the following: To paint fair Nature, by divine command. Her...

...poetry : " the cloud-capt towers, the solemn temples, the gorgeous palaces," are swept to the ground, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." All the traditions of learning, all the superstitions of age, are obliterated and effaced. We begin...

...towers, 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." Burns and Sir Walter Scott greet us from their niches ; Grote and Thirlwall, the truth-loving writers...

...poetry : ' the cloud-capt towers, the solemn temples, the gorgeous palaces,' are swept to the ground, and ' like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.' All the traditions of learning, all the superstitions of age, are obliterated and effaced. We begin...

...towers, 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 rack behind." In recognition of the spirit and of the high custom of our predecessors the present volume...

...design that at first glance the mind refused to accept the ruined city as a reality. I looked for it to dissolve, and, "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Buried in a dense tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitoes, scorpions, snakes and centipedes,...