 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 ... - Strana 175autor/autoři: Susan Ferrier - 1819Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1802 - 394 str.
...your call, were to lay before you the result of his reading ? Your airy castle would be gone for ever, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ! For such is its nature, that though the hundreds and thousands of props with which your friend, the... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 str.
...season at Glenallan Castle; where, from the good nature and easy temper of both master and mis* tress, he had no doubt but that he should in time come to...Lady Emily, upon first hearing of it. " The thing's incredible—absolutely impossible—I won't believe it!" " That's right, Doctor ; who is it that says... | |
 | 1830 - 496 str.
...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.'. If 1 were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1829 - 414 str.
...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." If I were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell Adams - 1829 - 502 str.
...Justiciary, for forgery ! Alas ! and well-a-day ! where then were his golden dreams ? they vanished like the " baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind," save the treasonable and hellish spirit which prompted him to this deed of infamy. He was caught in... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1829 - 418 str.
...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." If I were to speak of the nature of the Mirage from my own sensations, I should say, it was more a... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1832 - 754 str.
...yet he still clung to his office. One by one had the items of that Budget disappeared — vanished " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ; " and yet that noble Lord had not resigned. The noble Lord in the Upper House should have followed... | |
 | 1830 - 530 str.
...endeavored to approach it, the farther it seemed to recede, till it at last vanished altogether, ' like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.' If I were to speak of the nature of the mirage from my own sensations, I should say it was more a mental... | |
 | Pitt Morse - 1831 - 154 str.
...the scriptures, in favor of endless misery ; and if we are not grossly deceived, they have vanished like "the baseless fabric of a vision," leaving not a wreck behind. If eternal misery were sincerely believed, and its "proper influence" felt, the result. would be fanaticism,... | |
 | 1832 - 678 str.
...the nations. Iniquity, in every feature it has assumed, will and must pass away in a few generations, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind ; while our juvenile heralds, in the spirit of Heber's stanza, shall go forth shouting, — Waft, waft... | |
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