 | 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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...prison, says, in his poem to Althea, (page 73,) — INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. XXI. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." This is one of the privileges of genius, that, out of circumstances intended to degrade, it can draw... | |
 | 1853 - 1074 pages
...finds relief. So it was with Tasso. So it was with Lovelace, when he sang : — 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 714 pages
...no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud how good He и, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls... | |
 | 1853 - 528 pages
...finds relief. So it was with Tasso. So it was with Lovelace, when he sang:— Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take And in my soul am free,— Angels alone, that soar above, That for a hermitage. If I have freedom in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye; The gods that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. • * • • • Stone walls...prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and rjniet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1853 - 264 pages
...burning, which the wicked, weak king had no resolution either to repeal or enforce. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." And his captivity was shared and sweetened by two very lovely Huguenot girls, sisters, who were sentenced... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 pages
...written while he was a prisoner in the loathsome gatehouse at Westminster : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." prisonment by British authors might be collected between the time of the Poet-king, James... | |
 | Henry John Whitfeld - 1854 - 216 pages
...with a Poet and Cavalier, like Lovelace, when, in the Tower, he thus sang:— " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds, innocent and quiet, take These for a hermitage." but we can hardly have a fellow feeling with one who was both of gentle and... | |
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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. 
