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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. "
The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. ... - Page 111
by Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 312 pages
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...Gatehouse that Lovelace composed his beautiful verses, " To Althea from Prison :"— 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...
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Lectures delivered at literary and mechanics' institutions. Sequel

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...
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Publications, Issue 3

Hanserd Knollys Society for the Publication of the Works of Early English and Other Baptist Writers - 1847 - 582 pages
...adversity God has extracted manna for the nourishment of his church in the wilderness. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. For though men keep my outward man Within their locks and bars, Yet by the faith of Christ...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 18

1848 - 688 pages
...confined for debt, and his first greeting w:as a quotation from Lovelace : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage : Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. We thank Mr. Jesse for bringing the lines to our remembrance. In the Gate-house died Sir Geoffry Hudson...
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Naomi: Or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 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 and quiet 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."...
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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 652 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 and quiet take That for a hermitage. " If I have freedom in my love, And in rny soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,...
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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 472 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 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,...
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Methodist Hymnology: Comprehending Notices of the Poetical Works of John and ...

David Creamer - 1848 - 488 pages
...the Gatehouse at Westminster, more than a century before Newton wrote : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." Though his body was immured within the walls of a prison, Lovelace felt that he was not...
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The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1849 - 412 pages
...desolate. My sans culotte\, like Johnson's in Scotland, becomes a valuable piece . * " 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."...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 710 pages
...great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walh do not a t be invented, or by man's wit imagined. : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angela alone, that soar above, Enjoy such...
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