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,... Papers for the times [ed. by W. Lewin]. - Página 12editado por - 1879Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 páginas
...cloudcapt Towers, the gorgeous Palaces, ' The solemn Temples, the great Globe itself, ' And all which it inherit shall dissolve; ' And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, ' Leave not a wrack behind;' begin to have some meaning for us ? In a word, do we at length . stand safe in the far... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 páginas
...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." What is our consolation ? What, in the pure light of Scripture, do we look for? 2 Peter, iii. 13. "... | |
| Robert Gibbes Barnwell - 1851 - 416 páginas
...profusion from the exhaustless stores of his imagination. Such is the destiny of earthly things — "The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The...unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." SPIRIT OF EARTHQUAKE. BY JOHN G. DUNN, ESQ. 'Twas the noon of a winter night, dreary and dark ; The... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1851 - 236 páginas
...all Spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And like the baseless fabric of This Vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The...unsubstantial Pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind ! Go then, Thou grand One of the Present, grandly into the Past. And for the Future, Leave no trace... | |
| William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 páginas
...all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The...like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a wrack behind." * Dickens. A minute or two was allowed to elapse before the fatal signal was given.... | |
| Robert Gibbes Barnwell - 1851 - 412 páginas
...clond-capped towers, the gorgeons 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." SPIRIT OF EARTHQUAKE. BY JOHN G. DUNN, ESQ. 'Twas the noon of a winter night, dreary and dark ; The... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 páginas
...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.' '' Thus the spirit of this age describes the closing of the Great Exhibition, in language which a niedioeval... | |
| 1851 - 636 páginas
...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 bohind." Wednesday, the 15th of October, was the final day. With the exception of members of the government,... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 páginas
...representation of a dream. The following lines warrant this belief: And like the baseless fabric of this vision The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The...unsubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind : we are such stuff Ai dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. I may also... | |
| Augusta Browne - 1852 - 216 páginas
...cloud-capt 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 ;" — and paused for him to take it up and proceed, as was his custom, he merely corrected me, mechanically... | |
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