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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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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay reeess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd eontrol : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? Byron's ChUde Harold. О empty vault of former glory ! Where'er thou wert in time of old, Thy...
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Analytical Ethnology: The Mixed Tribes in Great Britain and Ireland Examined ...

Richard Tuthill Massy - Celts - 1855 - 280 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 passions hot that never brook'd control. Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3

Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 362 pages
...Yet this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the sonl ; Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook' d controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 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 controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement...
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The triumph of truth, and, Continental letters and sketches, from the ...

James Caughey - 1857 - 444 pages
...Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul; Behold through each lacklustre, eyeless hole The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's port, that never brook'd control; Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower,...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...T«, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through # brook'd control : Сжд all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement...
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Siluriana; Or, Contributions Toward the History of Gwent & Glamorgan

Glamorgan (Wales) - 1859 - 356 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...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 pages
...Ambition's airy lull, , The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : V. Behold through each h,ck-lustra, 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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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1860 - 372 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...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 76 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay reeess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never hrook'd eontrol : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenoment refit ? vn. Well didst thon speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing ean...
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