 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 - Pàgina 220per Walter Scott - 1823Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 370 pàgines
...V. 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,...thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tolkooth. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought -Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1817 - 382 pàgines
...Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.. Inscription on Edinburgh TolbootKi EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which...silent and surly attendants, appointed to convey him to bis place of confinement; at Port* anferry. This building adjoined to the custom-house established... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1817 - 370 pàgines
...CHAPTER V. 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 pkce of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 312 pàgines
...XII. ' 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,...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 pàgines
...V. ) 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,...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 pàgines
...MDCCCXXI. : 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,...PLACE OF ROGUES AND THIEVES, AND HONEST MEN AMONG. HARVARD UNIVERSITY NOTICE. HE Essayes and Characters of a Prison were originally published in 1618,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 248 pàgines
...care, A. place where none can thrive; A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one aliveSometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes...thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Talbooth. on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-House, -Was,... | |
 | John Badcock - 1823 - 222 pàgines
...prison. 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, Sometime* a place of rogues and thieves, With honest men among. Mynskull. Line — a string. A man... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...DCCCCLX1II. 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,...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 - 514 pàgines
...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... | |
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