 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, Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron...  Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. &c. To which is Added, Aramantha ... - Page 62by Richard Lovelace - 1817Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths...— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has changed this line into " When, linnct" like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...such liberty. * In the original it is " gods." The correction, which is very happy, is Dr. Percy's. When, like committed linnets, I* With shriller throat...— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has charged this line into " When, linnet. " like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths...Angels alone, that soar above, , Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy hat changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which it more intelligible.... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. » When, like committed linnets, I * With shriller thioat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...liberty. 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 Enjoy such liberly. 'Ifi/'HY dost thou say I am forsworn, * * Since thine I vow'd to be ? Lady, it is already... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 476 pages
...such liberty. • In the original it is " gods." The correction, which is very happy, i> Dr Percy'i. When, like committed linnets, I * With shriller throat...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. • Dr Percy baa changed this line into " When, linnet. " like confined, I," which is mora intelligible... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, Ami in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.'* Butler, however, probably borrowed his thought from the reasoning of Justice Adam Overdo, in Ben Jonson's... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...wincles that curie the flood Know no such libertie. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron harres a cage ; Minds innocent, and quiet take That for an...my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soare above, Enjoy such libertie. § 181. The Braet of yarrow, in Imitation of ike ancient Scott Manner.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...during his confinement in the Gatehouse, Westminster, is the same thought : " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." Butler, however, probably borrowed his thought from the reasoning of Justice Adam Overdo, in Ben Jonson's... | |
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