...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....

...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...

...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, 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,...

...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,...

...in Shakspere's Tempest, beginning, "The cloud-capt towers." We commonly read in the modern editions, "And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." No, says the corrector, uot wreck, but "rack : " rack being thiu Seating vapour, such as is seen on...

...when the oak is fallen, when the great sea is silent ; lives on though the earth should be swept away, and " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." We are men of affairs, crowded with many duties as the days come and go, and for the very reason that...

...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." Certain unwonted features in Swanage are due to the circumstance that two quarrymen of...

...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." — William Shakespeare's epitaph, written by his own hand, placed on his statue in Westminster Abbey....