...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...

...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....

...cluud-clapt tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Tea. all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind. Every person perceives that this passage is sublime ; but, whence does its Sublimity originate? Observe...

...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,...

...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...

...cloud-capt 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...

...cloud-capped 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...