 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pàgines
...Loath. "To gfye pain is the tyranny, to make Imppy the true empire, ot beauty."— Steelc. b Roberts. A prison is a house of care, a place where none can thrive, a touchstone trne to try a friend, a grave for one olive ; sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place of wrong,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1878 - 406 pàgines
...hard trot to put his machines in motion. SCOTCH TERRIERS. MRS. MAC-GUFFOG. CHAPTER THE FORTY-FOURTH. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. INSCRIPTION ON EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had hrought Bertram... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pàgines
...one's name in PRINT ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. BYRON, English Bank. Prison. — A PRISON is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Iuscription on Edinburgh Old Toibootli. Procrastination. — PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time.... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pàgines
...dark stain remove : To Him I look on bended knee, And hear that sweet— i Absolvo te.' 2873. PRISON. , loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the...were known. Far be it that I should write thee sin Inscription on Edinburgh TalboaA, How like A prison's to a grave ! when dead, we are With solemn pomp... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 pàgines
...against his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAP. XLIV. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of vjrong. Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. INSCRIPTION ON EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 pàgines
...where noite can thrive, A touchstone triie to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes ap lace of right, Sometimes a place of wrong. Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among, INSCRIPTION ON EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH. i ARLY on the following morning, the carriage I which had brought... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pàgines
...name in PRINT ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. BYRON, English Bards. Prison. — A PRISON is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for oue alive ; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
 | 1894 - 834 pàgines
...imposition than the patience of those who are to bear them. A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. CHAPTER XI. 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. — Inscription on Old Prison of Edinburgh. The evening of July 13, 1789, found Vivian at... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 436 pàgines
...On the west end of the hall hung a board, whereon was inscribed the following emphatic lines : — ' 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... | |
 | Frank Peel - 1880 - 184 pàgines
...numerons is the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much." DBYDltl. " A prison is a honse of care— A place where none can thrive ; A touchstone true to try a friend ; A grave fnr one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong ; Sometimes a place for rogues... | |
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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. 
