Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd 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 Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 6251812Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...now Look on its broken arch,— its ruined wall, Its chambers denolatc — its portals foul, Yes— 'this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought — the palace of the soul ! The pleasure arising from the inspection of ruined palaces,eastles and monasteries is not so much... | |
| Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...broken arcb, its mined waD, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Ye?, this was once 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, And passion's host, that never brooked... | |
| 1811 - 546 pages
...originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought,...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... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought,...lack-lustre, .eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Witj And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...shatter'd cell! " Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought,...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... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought,...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) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, itsruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, • The dome 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 - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...cell ! 63 Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought,...each 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... | |
| Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...extract. '* 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,...and of wit, And passion's host, that never brooked control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ— People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?"... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 324 pages
...cell ! .« * iiook on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought,...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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