 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
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 182 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? 7 Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! 'All that we know is, nothing can be known.' Why... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 182 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 Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...Ambition's airy hall. The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each hick-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 Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: V 50 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... | |
 | Thorslev - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 240 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 . . . (II, 6) The personal elegies which close each canto remind one particularly of Young's Night... | |
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