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" ... 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 ... - Page 175
by Susan Ferrier - 1818
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Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq: Respecting His Remarks on the Uses of ...

Christopher Wordsworth - Bible - 1802 - 394 pages
...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...
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Marriage: A Novel ...

Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 28

Arts - 1830 - 496 pages
...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...
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Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825 ..., Volume 2

Richard Robert Madden - Egypt - 1829 - 418 pages
...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...
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Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825 ..., Volume 2

Richard Robert Madden - Egypt - 1829 - 414 pages
...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...
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The Crawfurd Peerage: With Other Original Genealogical, Historical, and ...

Alexander Maxwell Adams - 1829 - 502 pages
...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...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1832 - 754 pages
...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...
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The New York Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 9

Medicine - 1830 - 530 pages
...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...
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Sermons in Vindication of Universalism

Pitt Morse - Universalism - 1831 - 154 pages
...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,...
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The life and adventures of the old lady of Threadneedle street [the Bank of ...

William Reid (political economist.) - 1832 - 68 pages
...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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