| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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