Our revels now are ended... 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-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe... Shakspere: His Inner Life as Intimated in His Works - Page 389by John Abraham Heraud - 1865 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, \ea all which it inherit, shall dissolve: And, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded, Leave not a wreck behind. CONCEALED LOVE. Feed on her damask cheek ; she pin'd in thought; And, with a green and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 To these noble images Re adds a short but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 440 pages
...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. — My work is done. [Breaks his Wand. Henceforth this land to the afflicted be A place of refuge,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 448 pages
...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...little life Is rounded with a sleep. — Sir, I am vex'd ; Bear with my weakness ; my old brain is troubled. Be not disturb'd with my infirmity : If you... | |
| 1813 - 662 pages
...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 rack behind.' Tempest, Now it appears to us, upon a consideration of these and many such like passages,... | |
| Horace Twiss - Parodies - 1814 - 126 pages
...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 ! 82 PINDAR, 12 OLYMP. OH THE ELECTION OF WILLIAM (WP) L — NG W — LL — ESQ. INTO THE HOUSE OF... | |
| 1814 - 556 pages
...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.'" Tcmpc.it. Now it appears to us, upon a consideration of these and many such like passages, that there... | |
| John Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 866 pages
...292. •\ SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS ; Mr. Pope's Second Edition, 1728. Vol. I. — Tempest, p. 57: Prosp. shall dissolve And like this unsubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind. Probably track or trace. Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 79 : Lys. either it was different in blood —... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...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 hehind —— To these noble images he adds a short, but comprehensive observation on human life, not... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...clcrad-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, tbe great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind : we are such stuff As dreams are made of ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.' ART. V. —... | |
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