| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...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... | |
| 1811 - 546 pages
...originality. ' 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, And Passion's... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...originality. ' 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 Witj And Passion's... | |
| 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
...! VI. Look on its broken arch, 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 through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...! 63 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 W isdom and of Wit And Passion's... | |
| 1812 - 564 pages
...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, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host,... | |
| 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
...! VI. Look on its broken arch, 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 through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's... | |
| 1812 - 666 pages
...! ' 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, the palace of the Soul ; Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's... | |
| Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...extract. '* 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, the palace of the soul. Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...i. 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, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's... | |
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