 He raised eyes, swimming with all his native goodness, towards the wise man, and dropped them gratefully on the face of the infant peace-maker. Then he turned away his head and fairly wept. The Parson was right: "O ye poor, have charity for the rich;...  My Novel: Or, Varieties in English Life - Página 328por Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1820 - 646 páginas
...tale ; — and the result has been3 that all the splendid illusions of his undigested ambition have, ' like the baseless fabric * of a vision, left not a wreck behind. ' His name is not a light or beacon, but a by-word and an ill omen in art. What he has left behind... | |
 | Freemasons, David Brewster - 1804 - 372 páginas
...her: yet all these " blushing honours'.' could avail her nothing ; — they quickly vanished ; and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." So sudden, so unsuspected was her fate ; so little thought she of instant dissolution, that she drew... | |
 | William Collins - 1805 - 278 páginas
...and the' superstructure of all his towering views crumbled into ruin, and dissolved in smoke, which, "like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." By this stroke of adverse fortune adventurer Was reduced to the last stage of human wretchedness ;... | |
 | John Weyland - 1807 - 442 páginas
...of txirope, the Dutch, Venetians, and Genoese, is cited ; whose prosperity has passed away, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." But let it be recollected, these have invariably been countries possessed of a limited territory ;... | |
 | John Buffa (M.D.) - 1810 - 280 páginas
...greater part of Spain, and subjected whole provinces to their dominion ? But those times are past, and, ' like ' the baseless fabric of a vision/ left '• not a ' wreck behind'." • t After a journey of six days (which might have been performed in three, but for the delays I have... | |
 | Samuel McSkimin - 1811 - 240 páginas
...ground sinking, and eels rising about their hearth stones, when lo ! in an instant the towa sunk, "and like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." The tradition adds that since this event, the place has been called Loughmorn. About forty perches... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 páginas
...ground sinking, and eels rising about their hearth stones, when, lo! in an instant, the town sunk, " and like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." This tradition shews how dreadful a violation of the rights of hospitality is considered in Ireland,... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 páginas
...sinking, and eels rising about their hearth stones, when, lo ! in an instant, the town sunk, " and like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." This tradition shews how dreadful a violation of the rights of hospitality is considered in Ireland,... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 526 páginas
...embellishers of ancient legends, shall, in the words of our immortal bard, have " melted into thin air," and "like " the baseless fabric of a vision" left " not a wreck " behind." Homer speaks of arts in such terms of respect and enthusiasm, as could only flow from a mind truly... | |
 | Castles - 1818 - 810 páginas
...permanent foundation than many she had previously constructed, they too successively vanished, ** and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind." From the contemplation of these romances of a full-fraught fancy, our deluded visionary was called... | |
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