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] - Seite 6251812Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 246 Seiten
...shattered ceJ' ! 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, suge, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 Seiten
...was once ambition's airy hall ; (it was} the dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Behold thou, through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, the gay recess of wisdom and of wit, and passion's host, which never brooked control. Can all the works which saints, or sages, or sophists have ever written,... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 240 Seiten
...shattered cell ! Look on its broken areh, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought,...Behold, through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recfss of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brooked control. Can all, saint, sage,... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1835 - 238 Seiten
...dwell ? Why, ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yea,...and of wit, And passion's host, that never brooked contiol. Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit... | |
| 1835 - 606 Seiten
...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,...Wisdom and of 'Wit, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control ; Can oil saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| 1835 - 804 Seiten
...Arbaces the Egyptian!" But Byron said, long ago, in Childe Harold, when gazing on a skull : " Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the •-.•<•; V etc. And, once more, the fashionable Pelham moralizes " and as the Earth from the Sun,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 Seiten
...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,...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 - 1837 - 356 Seiten
...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,...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.) - 1837 - 982 Seiten
...inducing that cordial Christian abhorrence bettreen sectaries aud schbmaticj. The Turks and Qnal-ers 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...hrUtian abhorrence bctwcca Kctarie» ud •chtaroarin The Turk* and Qo*>en Yes, this was once Ambition1« airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the...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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