 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
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1850 - 414 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...Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take Tbat for an hermitage/' It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 pages
...Horsemonger Lane a realization of the truth of the old cavalier's rhyme : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage. Leigh Hunt had metamorphosed his prison rooms. " I papered the walls," he says,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 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 lovo, And in my soul am free; Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...great should be, The 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.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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 liberty.... | |
 | 1852 - 410 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...fate destined for him by revolutionary violence.* But " si nur walla rio not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cane ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...great should be; Enlarged winds that curie the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedome in my love, And in my soule am free; Angels alone that soar above Injoy such libertie.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pages
...happiness and joy which bind faster than iron or brass. Our declaimers forget, that " Strong walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. * By enclosed orders we mean such as have no external duties that require going beyond the convent... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pages
...garden, to the light foot of a heedless new-comer. Well ! what of that ? " Stone v.-; ill- do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Willie would allow them a decent maintenance out of his income, and there they might... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 510 pages
...depended on preventing all intercourse between Norman and Monimia. CHAPTER XXSTV. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. While I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such... | |
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