 | Religion - 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, And passion's host, that never brooked control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ — People tliis lonely tower,... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...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, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower,... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...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 Witj And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People... | |
 | 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
...: 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... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...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, And passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...foul : Yea ! 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 brooked controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, . • People this lonely tower,... | |
 | 1812 - 564 pages
...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 And Passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this... | |
 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...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, And passion's host, that never brooked control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ— People this lonely tower,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pages
...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 And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...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 And Passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this... | |
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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... 
