A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Pągina 78per Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 312 pągines
...forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XII. ' A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive. A touchstone true to...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. tnscrijiiion on Edinburgh TaOiooth. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 254 pągines
...at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. vor.. HI. CHAPTER V. ) A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to...rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on-Edinburgh Tolbooth. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
| Geffray Minshull - 1821 - 136 pągines
...REPRINTED FOR W. AND C. TAIT, TBy James Batlantgne atrti &a. ^ MDCCCXXI. : A PRISON IS A HOUSE OF CARE, A PLACE WHERE NONE CAN THRIVE, A TOUCHSTONE TRUE TO...PLACE OF ROGUES AND THIEVES, AND HONEST MEN AMONG. HARVARD UNIVERSITY NOTICE. HE Essayes and Characters of a Prison were originally published in 1618,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 514 pągines
...forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XXIII. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to...thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tolboollt. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
| John Badcock - 1823 - 222 pągines
...author's ' Limbo of Oddities.' ' Cast into Limbo' — sent to a prison. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to...Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometime* a place of rogues and thieves, With honest men among. Mynskull. Line — a string. A man... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pągines
...Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter. — Mdison. DCCCCLX1II. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive; A touchstone true to...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. DCCCCLXIV. They who place themselves on that side of the world in which every thing appears in a ridiculous... | |
| 1829 - 642 pągines
...insolvent poetaster — were inscribed the following emphatic Hues : A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and... | |
| William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pągines
...plague of death or life, (G— save me!) I shall find my wife ! A TRUISM. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, — A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. He that the worth of friends would know Must for instruction to a prison go : The want of... | |
| 1829 - 514 pągines
...a house of care, A place where none can thrive* A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and thieve-», And honest men among. The historical recollections connected with the hau... | |
| 1831 - 470 pągines
...and I felt it was glory. from fOhltut'mt. THE CHARACTER OF A PRISON. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to...right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rngues and thieves, And honest men among. [The sui joined faithful picture of the abode of misery and... | |
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