 I endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.  Marriage: A Novel ... - Pagina 175door Susan Ferrier - 1819Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1897 - 896 pagina’s
...It was made but once, and will never be duplicated. When my vital processes cease, this kingdom will vanish " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." Our mind is the " stuff that dreams are made of " — and our bodies — what are they ? Physically... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1907 - 610 pagina’s
...It was made but once and will never be duplicated. When my vital processes cease, this kingdom will vanish " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." Our mind is of the " stuff that dreams are made of"; and our bodies—what are they ? Physically each... | |
 | Gerald Parsons, James Richard Moore - 1988 - 562 pagina’s
...that vanity induces men to put forward theories and to make assertions, which some future critic makes like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. Yet I am far indeed from decrying imperfect theories. They are the steps of the ladder by which the... | |
 | Alan P. F. Sell, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 496 pagina’s
...destruction of the Bastille was the ever memorable signal of the downfall of despotism, wch. Vanished like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. (0 For my own part I cannot approve of the French extending even liberty so rapidly. It wd. please... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1900 - 890 pagina’s
...immortality in which as Dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns, have proven Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leaving not a wreck behind. The old English school of history, notably that represented by Hume, Robertson and Macaulay, to single... | |
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