 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 256 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1825 - 282 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 Seiten
...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." 3. And, alas ! the ravages of time, though rapid and resistless, are too slow, to satisfy the furious... | |
 | 1825 - 788 Seiten
...and zeal for the Government, our Indian Empire, the wonder and admiration of the world, will vanish, and,, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." ' Ben-al, Nov. 1825.- • * *"' Sir' ^ovx <&*&***• servant, • A SUBALTERN. OLD ENGLISH OPINIONS... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 Seiten
...and zeal for the Government, our Indian Empire, the wonder and admiration of the world, will vanish, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Bengal, Nov. 1825. l atn« Sir. ïour °Ье(1д1е"' servant> Д SUBALTERN. OLD ENGLISH OPINIONS ON... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1825 - 178 Seiten
...happiness of the inhabitants of the surrounding country, but likewise destroy the labour of many years, and, -" like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind." It was evening when I landed ; and the sun, as it slowly declined beneath the western horizon, tinged... | |
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The 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. 
