 | 1811 - 546 pages
...he gathers from the ruins — and appears to us t« be written with great force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ' p. 6<t. There is then a most furious and unmeasured invective oa Lord Elgin, for his spoliation... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...which he gathers from the ruins — and appears to us to be written with great force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, • Its...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ' p. 64. There is then a most furious and unmeasured invective OH Lord Elgin, for his spoliation... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...Is that a temple where a God may dwell ? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest SOD ! " All that, we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
 | 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
...dwell ? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, itsruin'd wall^ Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes,...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! "All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
 | 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
...dwell ? 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,...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! "All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...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 host, that never brook'd...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...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, thin tenement refit ?' p. 6*. . Next to argument, Lord Byron's delight is in daring and bold personification,... | |
 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...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?" p. 64. Then, as a substitute for " feeble" orthodoxy, he .recommends to us tins, obviously in his own... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pages
...Is that a temple where a God may dwell? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell ! V. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! " All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 324 pages
...temple where a God may dwell? Why- ev'a the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell ! .« * iiook on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers...writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! . " All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
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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... 
