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It is solemn, temple-like, black, symmetrical, perfect, elegant, chilly.
" 'The solemn temples, the great globe itself / Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, / And' — what is it . . .
And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself – Yea, all which it inherit – shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
"The baseless fabric of this vision / The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces … The solemn temples, the great globe itself … Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve … And, like this insubstantial pageant faded … Leave not a rack behind".
These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
But the theatre has already heard some words of Shakespeare that famously, and in this case very appropriately, talk of theatrical impermanence: The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into the air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Evidence of Shakespeare was all around but among the cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces, Best's anything-but-solemn Temple was a thing of wonder.
He tells about the solemn granite temples to the dead.
And if through heaven's door should be my fate, Carry me right on past those pearly gates... To Shinto shrines and solemn Buddhist temples and The embrace of jolly prosperous bald men with dimples.
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