| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 pàgines
...Horsemonger Lane a realization of the truth of the old cavalier's rhyme : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage. Leigh Hunt had metamorphosed his prison rooms. " I papered the walls," he says,... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pàgines
...confined, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king : When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great...bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — • Angels alone, — that... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 260 pàgines
...age and faith, "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and free do take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in myself am free ; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The following extracts will convey... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pàgines
...linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my King; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, The enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison, make, Nor... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pàgines
...linnet-like, confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pàgines
...linnet-like, confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pàgines
...happiness and joy which bind faster than iron or brass. Our declaimers forget, that " Strong walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. * By enclosed orders we mean such as have no external duties that require going beyond the convent... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pàgines
...garden, to the light foot of a heedless new-comer. Well ! what of that ? " Stone v.-; ill- do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Willie would allow them a decent maintenance out of his income, and there they might... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King; When I shall voyce aloud, how good He is, how great should be; Enlarged winds that curie the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pàgines
...I, ¡n whose cause Lovelace was then in ргшш. — CJ Stone walls do not a prison make, Xor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in mv love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. ТНЯ SCRUTINY.... | |
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