| Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 páginas
...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,... | |
| Frederick Chamier - 1833 - 250 páginas
...curvetted on a regimental charger. CHAPTER VI. Look on ita broken arch, its ruin'd wall. Its chamber desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought—the palace of the soul CHILDE UAROLC. IT was at one of these sham, but earnest fights, mentioned... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 240 páginas
...dwell? Why, ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! Look on its broken areh, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes,...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 páginas
...shattered cell ! Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yea, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought,...wisdom 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... | |
| 1835 - 804 páginas
...soul of 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 páginas
...hroken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chamhers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was onee Amhition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the...of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never hrook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1837 - 234 páginas
...shattered cell ! Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : i Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, , , .-, -.,...lack-lustre, eyeless hole, . . .. . ' ... . The gay recess ef wisdom and of wit, .*,*.,. - . ... ->,' And passion's host, that never brooked contiol. Can all,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 páginas
...Is that a temple where a god may dwell ? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall. Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : of worship thrice sacred to devotion : its violation ¡9 a triple sacrilege. But — • 'i! MI.... | |
| William Howitt - 1838 - 448 páginas
...dwell ? Why, even the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul ; Yes,...wisdom 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... | |
| William Howitt - 1838 - 428 páginas
...dwell ? Why, even the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul ; Yes,...wisdom 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... | |
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