 Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 383edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, — Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron...free,— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. TO A HOSE. SWEET, serene, sky -like flower, Haste to adorn her bower : From thy long cloudy bed Shoot... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. / Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron...bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...for a hermitage. If £ have freedom in my love, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. DCCLXVIII. Lovelaee. Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...beautifully said, writing also, as it would seem, from a place of confinement, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." CHAPTER XVII. iVatural defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Nnvarete ; Saundevson ; Riigendas... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...beautifully said, writing also, as it would seem, from a place of confinement, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermilage." CHAPTER XVII. Natural Defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson;... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 548 pages
...much the boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say :— '" Slone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." • * Hymn to the Pillory. The leisure of De Foe, in the time of his captivity, was not... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...however, could break the spirit of such a man. Even in Newgate he wrote, and he sung "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." His reflections on his own history, and the statement which lie gives of liis principles,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pages
...much the boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say : — j" Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." * Hymn to the Pillory. DE FOE'S OCCUPATIONS IN NEWGATE. 85 The leisure of De Foe, in... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron barrs a cage, Mimics, innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soule am free, Angels alone, that scare above, Enjoy such libertie. NATURALISTS' CALENIMR.... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1014 pages
...solitude of a prison the fate destined for him by revolutionary violence. But " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world seems most adverse, when... | |
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