 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...they repulsed? — but 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
...us t« be written with great force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was...saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ' p. 6<t. There is then a most furious and unmeasured invective oa Lord... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...us to be written with groat force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was...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
...ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell! " Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was...saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? " Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! ' All that we know is,... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was...saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest SOD ! " All that, we know... | |
 | 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
...Whyev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter" J cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, itsruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was...saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! "All that we know is,... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...cell ! ' Look on it« broken arch, its ruin'd 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 controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, . • People this lonely tower, thin... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell ! 63 Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was...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
...soliloquy on a skull might apologize for the last extract. '* Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was...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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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... 
