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
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...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 That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude but vigorous... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...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 That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his ,own rude but vigorous... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 340 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 a hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...how great should be, Enlargëd 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 ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 pages
...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 an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such... | |
| Bits - 1847 - 88 pages
...great should be, Th' 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... | |
| William Goodman - 1847 - 376 pages
...great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows 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.... | |
| 1847 - 334 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 .1 hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
| William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...of a gaol. These men have proved the truth of Lovelace's elegant stanza : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Nor is age an insuperable obstacle to the acquirement of knowledge. It is never too late... | |
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