 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
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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 - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. Behold through be clipp'd: 'Tis done — all closely are they shorn — The vest wh [trol ; And Passion's host, that never brook'd conCan all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...Yos, 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul ; Behold through ath stablislvd it fast • By a changeless decree, And round it hath cast, Like port, that never brooked control. Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ People this lonely tower,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 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 - 1873 - 336 pages
...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 refit ? Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son .' "All that we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless ho'.e, 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 thi* lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1874 - 388 pages
...to wail, Till, frantic, he as trutli received* What of his birth the crowd believed, 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 «ver writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
 | Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - 1875 - 768 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul : Behold through ds pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas ! My heart...Where it will break at last. ТаMusic, when soft refit ? Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! ' All that we know is, nothing can be known.' Why... | |
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