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
| Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 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 Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...Yee, 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... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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 Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul : Behold through I heard the order — saw — I will not see — If thou wilt perish, I will full with thee. My li brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| baroness E. C. de Calabrella - Women and literature - 1846 - 588 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... | |
| James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 pages
...ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the sottl. Behold through each lack lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host that never brook'd control : — Could all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...Yes, tin-, was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through est blessing When join'd with hope, when still possessing ; But how Anil Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 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... | |
| baroness E. C. de Calabrella - 1851 - 540 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 ?" These, indeed, are sad and solemn relics of the deeds and of the actors of them, who have... | |
| English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul :Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hoky 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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