...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,...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...poetry i " 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 beginefe/zoyo,...

...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,...