...your call, were to lay before you the result of his reading ? Your airy castle would be gone for ever, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ! For such is its nature, that though the hundreds and thousands of props with which your friend, the...

...season at Glenallan Castle; where, from the good nature and easy temper of both master and mis* tress, he had no doubt but that he should in time come to...Lady Emily, upon first hearing of it. " The thing's incredible—absolutely impossible—I won't believe it!" " That's right, Doctor ; who is it that says...

...endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, ' like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.'. If 1 were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a...

...endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." If I were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a...

...Justiciary, for forgery ! Alas ! and well-a-day ! where then were his golden dreams ? they vanished like the " baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind," save the treasonable and hellish spirit which prompted him to this deed of infamy. He was caught in...

...endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it- vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." If I were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a...

...yet he still clung to his office. One by one had the items of that Budget disappeared — vanished " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ; " and yet that noble Lord had not resigned. The noble Lord in the Upper House should have followed...

...endeavored to approach it, the farther it seemed to recede, till it at last vanished altogether, ' like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.' If I were to speak of the nature of the mirage from my own sensations, I should say it was more a mental...

...the scriptures, in favor of endless misery ; and if we are not grossly deceived, they have vanished like "the baseless fabric of a vision," leaving not a wreck behind. If eternal misery were sincerely believed, and its "proper influence" felt, the result. would be fanaticism,...

...the nations. Iniquity, in every feature it has assumed, will and must pass away in a few generations, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ; while our juvenile heralds, in the spirit of Heber's stanza, shall go forth shouting, — Waft, waft...