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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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