 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
 | 1813 - 996 pages
...ambition's niry 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,...all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ — People tliis lonely tower, this tenement refit f p. 64. Then, as a substitute for " feeble" orthodoxy, he... | |
 | 1811 - 546 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... | |
 | 1811 - 600 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... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...! 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...and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brooked controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, . • People this lonely tower, thin tenement... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 528 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 pages
...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 - 1812 - 314 pages
...lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of W isdom 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 ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
 | 1812 - 564 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.'... | |
 | 1813 - 486 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?" p. 64. Then, as a substitute for " feeble" orthodoxy, he .recommends to us tins, obviously... | |
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