| Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king ; 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 make, Nor... | |
| 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...grates ; " When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. * * * * " Stone walls do not...Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." This accomplished man, who is said by Wood to have been in his youth " the most amiable and beautiful... | |
| Literature - 1848 - 690 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... | |
| David Creamer - Hymns - 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... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 1848 - 470 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,... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 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,... | |
| Anne (Aunt.) - Christian life - 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... | |
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