 ... and be lord paramount over kitchen and larder. His disappointment was therefore great at finding all the solid joys of red deer and moorgame, kippered salmon and mutton hams, ' vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision,  Marriage: A Novel ... - 175 ページSusan Ferrier 著 - 1818全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1802 - 394 ページ
...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 - 1819 - 364 ページ
...season at Glenallan Castle ; where, from the good nature and easy temper of both master and mistress, 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... | |
 | 1830 - 496 ページ
...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 - 418 ページ
...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... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1829 - 414 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1832 - 754 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | William Reid (political economist.) - 1832 - 68 ページ
...yet hear the yell of despair which the ruined speculators"raised, when their golden dreams vanished 'like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving 'not a wreck behind-' It were to trespass on, the feelings of my indulgent reader, were I to. attempt to describe/the agonizing... | |
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