 | 1848
...confined for debt, and his first greeting w:as a quotation from Lovelace : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage : Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. We thank Mr. Jesse for bringing the lines to our remembrance. In the Gate-house died Sir Geoffry Hudson... | |
 | David Creamer - 1848 - 470 páginas
...the Gatehouse at Westminster, more than a century before Newton wrote : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." Though his body was immured within the walls of a prison, Lovelace felt that he was not... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 448 páginas
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron 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 soar above,... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 448 páginas
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. " If I have freedom in my love, And in rny soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 408 páginas
...if this young man had passed his long captivity in murmurings and discontent. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." We must now return to our English king, whose mind was by no means in so tranquil a state... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 514 páginas
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take Th«f for a hermitage." In Banyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850
...solitude of a prison the fate destined for him by revolutionary violence."" But " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage: Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world seems most adverse, when... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850
...solitude of a prison the fate destined for him by revolutionary violence.* But " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world seems most adverse, when... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850
...majenty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud how good lie is, how great should be, Th' ood while before their starting. Oh, a good rod would finely take them na net a prison make, Nor iron ban a cage ; Minds, innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage : If... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1850
...solitude of a prison the fate destined for him by revolutionary violence.* But " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take Tbat for an hermitage/' It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world... | |
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Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. 
