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" 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 457
1824
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The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1853 - 402 pages
...Yet 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 contruul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist over writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement...
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The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1853 - 402 pages
...Yet 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 cnntroul : Can nil saint, sage, or sophist over writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 406 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 2ver writ, 1'eople this lonelv tower, this tenement...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. Behold through roop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last dr [trol ; And Passion's host, that never brook'd conCan all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People...
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The Bay View Magazine

Group reading - 1897 - 844 pages
...ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul ; Behold through each lack-luster, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit...ever writ. People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? GRANADA CATHKDRAL — ARABIAN TOWER. THE BEGGAR. (From thr SixitiMi.1 JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA. THE...
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An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric for the Use of Schools

Francis Cuthbert Doyle - English language - 1893 - 434 pages
...desolate and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, And Passion's host that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? " — Byron. Childe Harold, Cant. ii. 6. FABLE. A fable is a short allegory or feigned story,...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 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...ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? vn Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! 55 'All that we know is, nothing can be known.'0...
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Works, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep."] v. Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit l And Passion's host, that never brooked control : Can all Saint, Sage, or Sophist ever writ, People...
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The Novels and Poems of Sir Walter Scott: Poems and ballads

Walter Scott - 1900 - 824 pages
...Yet 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...
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Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 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 ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known."...
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