Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit... The Monthly critical gazette - Page 4571824Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...supérieure, de Shakespeare, sur la fragilité do la vie humaine (Hamlet, acte V. scène I). Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...Ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul; Behold through the lack-luster, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...Ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul; Behold through the lack-luster, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1885 - 200 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of...ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - Italian literature - 1885 - 360 pages
...hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, 50 The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 518 pages
...Tes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the soul ; Behold through each lack-lustre eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...lack-lustre eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? With brain-born dreams of evil all their own. Pursue what Chance or Fate proclaimeth best ;... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And 1'assion's host, that never brooked control < Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this... | |
| Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of...Wit, And Passion's host, that never brooked control • I Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ. People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? :... | |
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