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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... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: Childe Harold - Page 68
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817
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The Christian Observer, Volume 11

Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 19

1811 - 546 pages
...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...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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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 19

English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...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...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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 8, Part 1

1812 - 666 pages
...its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yea ! this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul ; Behold...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 7

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
...itsruin'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...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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The British review and London critical journal

1812 - 564 pages
...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...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 7

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 - 510 pages
...itsruin'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...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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The Quarterly Review (london)

Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 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,...refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest SOD ! " All that, we know is, nothing can be known." x 'Why should we shrink from what we cannot shun?...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt : and Other Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...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...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...
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The Quarterly Theological Magazine, and Religious Repository ..., Volume 1

Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...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...writ— People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?" p. 64. Then, as a substitute for " feeble" orthodoxy, he .recommends to us tins, obviously in his own...
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