 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
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 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... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...ambition's airy hall (2), The dome of thought , the palace of the soul ; Behold through each lack-lustre (5) eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host that never brook'd (4) control. Can all that saint or sophist ever writ (3) People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...hall, /The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : I Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless bole, I n on the first houses in Pera. With regard to presents, an establishe brook' J control: *Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...Vet 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, For heath-bell with her purple bloom, Supplied the bonnet and the plume.1 All night, in this sad glen,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Tes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through out anachronism. With the poems upon similar topics I have not been recently familiar. Since I was brook'd control : Сад all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 504 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 bower, this tenement... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-luslre, 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 Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul : Behold through ton of the north ; you would not be the first prince...rebelled, nor the first whom they have basely betrayed. refit ! Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! ' All that we know is, nothing can be known.'... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 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 - 1844 - 234 pages
...ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Behold, through each la.ck-lust.ve, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that nevei brooked control. Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
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