...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...

...knew 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...

...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 ;...

...nations 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 ;...

...greater part of Spain, and subjected whole provinces to their domi, nion? But those times are past, and, 'like * the baseless fabric of a vision,' left ' not a « wreck behind', ". , After a journey of six days (which might have been performed in three, but for the delays I have...

...by the 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,...

...by the 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,...

...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...

...them both." Leuny's sulleuness melted in an instant : the reminiscence of tracts Nos. 1 and 2, — " Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind." He raised eyes, swimming with all his native goodness, towards the wise man, and dropped them gratefully...

...more 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...