 | 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,... | |
 | 1832 - 1020 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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'... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 pages
...expressed by the accomplished Lovelace, when confined in the Gatehouse at Westminster; Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage. During his imprisonment he composed the Shepherd's Hunting, a pastoral poem of great beauty,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 436 pages
...spirit, though without the eloquence of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." The hymn of De Foe commences thus: " Hail ! Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 452 pages
...spirit, though without the eloquence of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." The hymn of De Foe commences thus : " Hail ! Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...When I shall 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...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... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...When I shall 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...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 such... | |
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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 such liberty. 
