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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. "
A First Sketch of English Literature - Page 523
by Henry Morley - 1873 - 912 pages
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...great should be, — Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has charged this line into " When, linnet. " like confined, I," which is more intelligible....
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...great should be, — Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...Angels alone, that soar above, , Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy hat changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which it more intelligible....
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

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...
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Hudibras: Poem, Volume 1

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...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

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....
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Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. &c. To which is Added, Aramantha ...

Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...how great should be; Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. Iking TO ELINDA. FOR cherries plenty, and for currans, Enough for fifty were there more on's ; For...
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Hudibras, a Poem, Volume 1

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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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The song called the Scrutiny is a most delightful piece of male coquetry. It is written in the happiest...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 4

Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. ; Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; , Minds innocent...Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The song called the Scrutiny is a most delightful piece of male coquetry. It is written in the happiest...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 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...Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. This song has been much, and very justly admired, and if he had composed nothing more, .vould have...
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