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" 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 217
1832
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...in 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." This accomplished man, who is said by Wood to have been in his youth " the most amiable and beautiful...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 18

1848 - 690 pages
...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...
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Naomi: Or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 340 pages
...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 an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty."...
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Methodist Hymnology: Comprehending Notices of the Poetical Works of John and ...

David Creamer - 1848 - 488 pages
...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...
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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 470 pages
...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,...
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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 652 pages
...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,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walh do not a t be invented, or by man's wit imagined. : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angela alone, that soar above, Enjoy such...
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The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1849 - 412 pages
...desolate. My sans culotte\, like Johnson's in Scotland, becomes a valuable piece . * " 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."...
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Aunt Anne's History of England on Christian Principles: For the Use of Young ...

Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 440 pages
...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...
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Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the life and times of John Bunyan ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 950 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 Th«f for a hermitage." In Banyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude...
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