 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude but vigorous... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his ,own rude but vigorous... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King ; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Enlargëd winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...grates ; When I 1it- 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...bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for .1 hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...of a gaol. These men have proved the truth of Lovelace's elegant stanza : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Nor is age an insuperable obstacle to the acquirement of knowledge. It is never too late... | |
 | Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king ; Chambers Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...grates ; " When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. * * * * " Stone walls do not...Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." This accomplished man, who is said by Wood to have been in his youth " the most amiable and beautiful... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - Boston (Mass.) - 1848 - 340 pages
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...take That for an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." " There," said he,... | |
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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 a hermitage. 
