...such lessons as, " pride goeth before destruction," it would come tumbling about its owner's ears, " And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind." Of these two modes of Irish hotel police, it would be pleasant to select some living examples, as an...

...(then alive) ; so Prudence •whispered that I should let pneumatic medicine " melt into thin air," and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." By a card which I saw at a patient's house, I found there was a person who styled himself an arthritiil,...

...spouting, and imitated him inimitably in Prospero's lines : ~ ' Yea, the great globe itself, And all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a rack behind !' " When half seas over, Kemble used to speak " in blank-verse: and with practice, I don't...

...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea, 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 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,...

...the two verses in the eleventh of Genesis on this subject, may prove ingenuity ; but it must fall, and, ' Like the baseless fabric of a vision, ' Leave not a wreck behind.' God was pleased to scatter mankind : he knew where each tribe or family would eventually settle ; and...

...empire in India would not last for a single moment ; and, if it once passed away, it would vanish, " and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.'' They might perhaps imagine that there was no chance of any foreign invasion of India. But he would...

...of spouting, and imitated him inimitably in Prospero's lines : " ' Yea, the great globe itself, it shall dissolve, " ' And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, " ' Leave not a rack behind" " When half seas over, Kemble used to speak in blank-verse : and with practice, I don't...

...descend, (Hear, hear, from Messrs. W- e and B—tt — h,) Shall melt into the air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. I shall detain the house no longer than to return my thanks for the indulgence with which I have been...

...coming, when all honours and possessions, but this which cometh of God only, will be eclipsed and vanish, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." How miserable will they then be, who must leave their all! What a mortifying thought does Horace put...