 | 1794 - 518 pages
...thoughts are calm; Then strike Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscals a gaol, A private closet is to me: Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together me% Make me no prisoner, but an... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 pages
...are calm ; Then strike, affliction ! for thy wounds are balm. " That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me ; Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 pages
...Then strike affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a goale, A pi i vate closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my baile. And innocence cay liberty: Lork<s. barren, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner but an auchorit," &c.*... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...are calm ; Then strike, affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty ; Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...arc calm ; Flien strike, Affliction, for thy woundsarc bairn. That which live world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me : Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty; .ocks, bars, and solitude, together met, (lake me no prisoner, but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 pages
...thoughts are calm : Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail A private closet is to me, Whilst a good Conscience is my bail, And Innocence my .liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1823 - 610 pages
...cell, by a gentleman who, in 1715, passed some time in prison. ' That which the world miscals a gaol, A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty.' Some entertaining specimens are given of a manuscript diary which... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pages
...cell, by a gentleman who, in 1715, passed some time in prison. ' That which the world miscals a gaol, A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty.' Some entertaining specimens are given of a manuscript diary which... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...left the following memorial on the windows of his cell :— " That which the world unseals a gaol, A private closet is to me ; Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty." But a truce to " prison thoughts," The Albums, consisting of fragments... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 pages
...memorial on the windows of his cell. On one pane of glass he wrote, " That which the world miscals a gaol, A private closet is to me ; Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty. On another square he wrote, " Mutare vel timere sperno," and on a third... | |
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Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me : Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. 
