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
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 pages
...And 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 And in my soul am free, Angela alone that soar above If I have freedom in my love, Enjoy_«uch liberty.... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...death ; and the second, arrested by the military despotism which he so long strove to avert from his country, has lately awaited in the solitude of a prison...destined for him by revolutionary violence.* But " Stone walla do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cace : Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage."... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 pages
...LOVELACE, has beautifully said, writing also 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. Natural deft'cts overcome. Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Sa'.mderson ; Rugcndas;... | |
| 1841 - 178 pages
...low 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.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...how 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 : I f I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am tree, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.... | |
| 1845 - 324 pages
...see nothing E out of doors, but the blue sky or the heavy clouds over his head. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. Such was the sentiment of a soldier of this world ; the great combatants for the next... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 454 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage." "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this place;... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage.'* "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage } Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage." "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this place;... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...flamens, and (as between two stools) going away in the end without his supper ! 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... | |
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