 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...  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 128edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...stand by that good earle and thee." OLD MORTALITY, vol. iii. chap. ii. p. 101. " 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 Enjoy... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1827 - 550 pages
...stand by that good earle and thee." OLD MORTALITY, vol. iii. chap. ii. p. 101. " 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 Enjoy... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...of my king ; (a) In the original it is " gods." The correction, which is very happy, is Dr Percy's. When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great...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... | |
 | 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 that of idleness... | |
 | 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, long after... | |
 | 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 the time of his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 614 pages
...resolute endurance, which is manifested as often in a wrong cause as in a right. 1 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.' Eliot the dependant of Buckingham, and Eliot the patriot, had 1 known no such liberty' as Eliot the... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 618 pages
...resolute endurance, which is manifested as often in a wrong cause as in a right. ' Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.' Eliot the dependant of Buckingham, and Eliot the patriot, had ' known no such liberty' as Eliot the... | |
 | 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... | |
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