 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.  Specimens of the Early English Poets - Page 189by George Ellis - 1790 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...should be, Th' enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows no such liberty. , 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 148 pages
...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 and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,— Angels alone, th'at soar above,... | |
 | Christian saints - 1845 - 324 pages
...nothing E out of doors, but the blue sky or the heavy clouds over his head. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. Such was the sentiment of a soldier of this world ; the great combatants for the next have fulfilled... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...of aprison 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...has beautifully said, writing also from a place of confinement ; — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." CHAPTER XVII. Natural deft'cts overcome. Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Sa'.mderson... | |
 | Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 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 and quiet take That for an hermitage : I f I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am tree, Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...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 That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude but vigorous rhymes, the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...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 That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his ,own rude but vigorous rhymes, the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...and (as between two stools) going away in the end without his supper ! 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,... | |
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