 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majenty, e rest of their schoolfellows), they shall come soon enoug lie is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls... | |
 | 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 - English newspapers - 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,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...deep, Know no such liberty. MISCELLANEOUS SONGS. When linnet-like, confined, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Know 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, The enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison, make, Nor... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pages
...happiness and joy which bind faster than iron or brass. Our declaimers forget, that " Strong walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. * By enclosed orders we mean such as have no external duties that require going beyond the convent... | |
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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 a hermitage. 
