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Pamphlets - Homoeopathic - Page 14
1851
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 52

Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...have they repulsed? — but now Look on its broken arch,— its ruined wall, Its chambers denolatc — its portals foul, Yes— 'this was once ambition's...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...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 11

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 19

1811 - 546 pages
...great force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy...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, People...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 19

1811 - 600 pages
...groat force and originality. ' Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy...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 Quarterly Review (london)

Anonymous - 1812 - 512 pages
...disdains her shattered cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy...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, People...
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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) - 1812 - 506 pages
...disdains her shatter" J cell ! VI. Look on its broken arch, itsruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy...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, People...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 3

1812 - 528 pages
...disdains her shatter'd cell! " Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall,...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, People...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 8, Part 1

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,...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, . •...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt : and Other Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 pages
...disdains her shatter'd cell ! 63 Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy...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

1813 - 486 pages
...apologize for the last extract. '* Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall,...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...
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