 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 pàgines
...against his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XLIV. A prison Is a house of care, A place where none can...A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one &iivo. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves,... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pàgines
...all things like a grave, Where we no bettor privileges have Than dead men; nor so good. BISHOP KING. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...one alive; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a plnco of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves And honest men among. ANONYMOUS. And this place... | |
 | Metta Victoria Victor - 1861 - 314 pàgines
...inflamed against the innocent Northerner for his kidnapping propensities. 238 CHAPTEE XIII"Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, With honest men among.' " He deserves small trust, Who is not privy councillor to himself. "-FoBD.... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - 354 pàgines
...amelioration of our criminals, deserve especial notice. We shall allude first of all to John Howard. " A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among." If stones could cry out of the walls, how many stories of grief and terror might be told by an old... | |
 | Charles Lindsey - 1862 - 846 pàgines
...a place of care, A place where none can thrive, A touch-stone true to try a friend, A grave to bury one alive; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieve* And honest men among.' " the pardoning power ; and a fellow refugee acted the part of the comforter... | |
 | Charles Lindsey - 1862 - 834 pàgines
...and under, in gilt letters, the following verses as near as I can recollect : " ' A prison is a place of care, A place where none can thrive, A touch-stone true to try a friend. A grave to bury one alive; Sometime!" a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage. LOVELACE. — To Althea from Prison ; 2 Percy Rel. 848. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. ANGNYMOUS. — Inscription in Ediuburgh Tolbootb, If lovers, Cupid ! are thy care, Exert thy vengeance... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pàgines
...ARTICLES AND THEIR NOUNS. 'The indefinite article agrees with a noun in the singular number only ; as, ' A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touckstone true to try a friend, * A grave for one alive,' Inscription on Edinburgh Tolbooth. OBS —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 348 pàgines
...horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XLIV. A prison la a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. INSCMPTIOK ON EDraBUBOK Toiuoom. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram... | |
 | James Paterson - 1864 - 112 pàgines
...8d. than the sum spent in supporting " the honour and dignity of the burgh in the public houses." " 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... | |
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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. 
