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 lord Byronpor George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823Vista de fragmentos - Acerca de este libro
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul :Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hoky The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,... | |
| baroness E. C. de Calabrella - 1851 - 540 páginas
...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, this tenement refit ?" These, indeed, are sad and solemn relics of the deeds and of the actors of them, who have long ago... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 páginas
...their harps beneath those tranquil shades To morning songs or moonlight serenades. JAMBS MONTGOMEBY. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? BYBON. London: JOBS CBOCOOED, 89, Essex-street, Strand. Every Saturday, THE JOURNAL OF AUCTIONS AND... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...heaps; Is that a temple where a God may dwell? "Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter 'd cell! Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? Byron. SKY. A BREATH thou art, Subject to all the skyey influences That do this habitation where thou... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 páginas
...dome of Thonght, the palace of the Sonl: Behold throngh each lack-lnstre, eyeless hole, The gay reeess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? Well didst thon speak, Athena's wisest son ! "All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why shonld... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 páginas
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd contronl : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? Childe Harold. i These reflections on an ancient field of battle afford the most remarkable instance... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1853 - 404 páginas
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd contronl : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? ChUde Harold. 1 These reflections on an ancicnt field of battle afford the most remarkable instance... | |
| George Cattermole - 1853 - 552 páginas
...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, this tenement rent ?" These, indeed, are sad and solemn relics of the deeds and of the actors of them, who have long... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...recess of wisdom and of wit, And раяяюи'з host, that never brook1«! control . Can all Haint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit 7" Cliilde Harald. ч " These reflection* on an ancient field of battle afford the most remarkable... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 páginas
...heaps: Is that a temple where a God may dwell ? Why, even the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? 1 [" Still wilt thou harp."—MS.] VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we... | |
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