 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
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...been looking Jor you such a time f" " Ohf you naughty girl;" &c., <fcc. " Stone wall* do not a priion make, nor iron bars a cage : Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage." So sang the poet of the Royalists ; and Charles Waterlon in that mysterious worship of animated nature,... | |
 | 1839 - 498 pages
...¡лйу Jane Grey, and Lovelace, prove that, as thu latter has sweetly sung, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds Innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." * " He that flrst taught hfa music auch a strain, Was that sweet shepherd, who, until... | |
 | 1841 - 444 pages
...take the liberty of quoting for his Lordship's especial gratification : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." Sustained by the goodness of his cause, Mr Candlish would have composed the Syllabus... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 148 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice...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, th'at soar above,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...grates; When I 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...Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take And in my soul am free,— Angela alone that soar above If I have freedom in my love, Enjoy_«uch liberty.... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller notes shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud, how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows no such liberty. , Stone walls do not a prison make,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, ow'ry work doth sing, Ami the waters murmuring, ^ ith such concert as they keep, I'-nticc the d Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Xor... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Christian saints - 1844 - 494 pages
...see nothing E out of doors, but the blue sky or the heavy clouds over his head. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. Such was the sentiment of a soldier of this world ; the great combatants for the next have fulfilled... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King ; When I shall voice...bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage : I f I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am tree, Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller notes shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud, how good He is, how great should be, Tii" enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make,... | |
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