 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2171832Full view - About this book
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...carriage arrived at Harpsden Hall. 't / ii '-. ti • ,. ,. i , CHAPTER VIIL '• Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for ;m hermitage. — If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 pages
...the spirit, though without the eloquence, of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. The hymn of De Foe commences thus : Hail 1 Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to punish... | |
 | Poems - 1827 - 934 pages
...of a mighty mind ! LIBERTY, (from an nnpvblished poem.) Stone walls do not a prison r.mku Nor iron bars a cage ; — Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. LOVELACE. HAIL, blessed Liberty ! — that art to those Who know thee right, indeed a deity ! Hail,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...great should be, — 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 an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air 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. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 pages
...beautifully said, writing also, as it would seem, from a place of confinement, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." CHAPTER XVII. iVatural defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Nnvarete ; Saundevson ; Riigendas... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 pages
...beautifully said, writing also, as it would seem, from a place of confinement, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermilage." CHAPTER XVII. Natural Defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson;... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pages
...much the boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say : — j" Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." * Hymn to the Pillory. DE FOE'S OCCUPATIONS IN NEWGATE. 85 The leisure of De Foe, in... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...however, could break the spirit of such a man. Even in Newgate he wrote, and he sung "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." His reflections on his own history, and the statement which lie gives of liis principles,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 548 pages
...much the boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say :— '" Slone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." • * Hymn to the Pillory. The leisure of De Foe, in the time of his captivity, was not... | |
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