| Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 440 pages
...if this young man had passed his long captivity in murmurings and discontent. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." We must now return to our English king, whose mind was by no means in so tranquil a state... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 950 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 Th«f for a hermitage." In Banyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 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... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 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... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - 1850 - 414 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 Tbat for an hermitage/' It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 pages
...Horsemonger Lane a realization of the truth of the old cavalier's rhyme : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage. Leigh Hunt had metamorphosed his prison rooms. " I papered the walls," he says,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...Minds, innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my lovo, And in my soul am free; Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1851 - 592 pages
...When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, The 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 liberty.... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...great should be; Enlarged winds that curie the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedome in my love, And in my soule am free; Angels alone that soar above Injoy such libertie.... | |
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