 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.  St. Mary's Hall Lectures: And Other Papers - Side 140af Henry Budd - 1898 - 287 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Hinds, innocent and quiet, take That for an 9 ; Angela alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. THOMAS RANDOLPH. THOMAS RANDOLPH (1605-1634) published... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 sider
...great 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,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 sider
...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 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,... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 470 sider
...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...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." " There," said he, " can you match in simplicity and beauty such lines as these ? " Mr. Wilson said... | |
 | David Creamer - 1848 - 488 sider
...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 a prisoner.... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 340 sider
...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 an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 652 sider
...from the unfortunate, and leave them to solitude and anguish ! CHAPTER XXV. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." THE Boston jail was at this time a small and inconvenient building, situated in what... | |
 | 1848 - 690 sider
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 sider
...in 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 and quiet take That for an hermitage." This accomplished man, who is said by Wood to have been in his youth " the most amiable... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 440 sider
...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 as that of... | |
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