 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
 | John Galt - Poets, English - 1830 - 352 pages
...retains all the terrific appearances of a death's head, and imagine that they could Behold through each lack-lustre eyeless hole The gay recess of wisdom and of wit. Not at all ; there is nothing whatever startling in it. It is well polished, its edge is bound by a... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 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.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thonght, the palace of the Sonl: Bchold throngh each lack.lnstre, 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, Pcople thU lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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 ? Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...Yes, this was once amhition'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.) - 1832 - 488 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1833 - 246 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...host, that never brooked control. Can all, saint, suge, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? TRANSPOSED. Remove thou... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 pages
...once ambition's airy hall ; (it was} the dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Behold thou, through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, the gay recess of wisdom and of wit, and passion's host, which never brooked control. Can all the works which saints, or sages, or sophists have ever written,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1834 - 240 pages
...of thought, the palace of the soul. Behold, through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recfss of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never...ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? TRANSPOSED. Remove thou yonder skull out from the scattered heaps. Is that a temple, where... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1835 - 238 pages
...Yea, 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...and of wit, And passion's host, that never brooked contiol. Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit... | |
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