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 itself, Yea, all which it inherit,... Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher - Page 238edited by - 1881 - 271 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. • SHE never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th'... | |
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...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,... | |
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...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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1814 - 556 pages
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| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 322 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 he adds a short, but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...clond-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 he adds a short but comprehensive observation on human life, not excelled by... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 298 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 iack behind To these noble images he adds a short, but comprehensive observation on human life, not... | |
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