 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.  Specimens of the Early English Poets - Seite 189von George Ellis - 1790 - 323 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 Seiten
...boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say : — j" Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." * Hymn to the Pillory. DE FOE'S OCCUPATIONS IN NEWGATE. 85 The leisure of De Foe, in the time of his... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 Seiten
...boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say : — i" Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." * * Hymn to the Pillory. DE FOE'S OCCUPATIONS IN NEWGATE. 85 The leisure of De Foe, in the time of... | |
 | 1830 - 744 Seiten
...break the spirit of such a man. Even in Newgate he wrote, and he sung "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." His reflections on his own history, and the statement which lie gives of liis principles, long after... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 Seiten
...beautifully said, writing also, as it would seem, 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 hermilage." CHAPTER XVII. Natural Defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 Seiten
...endurance, which is manifested as often in a wrong cause as in a right. ' Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.' Eliot the dependant of Buckingham, and Eliot the patriot, had ' known no such liberty' as Eliot the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 Seiten
...endurance, which is manifested as often in a wrong cause as in a right. 1 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.' Eliot the dependant of Buckingham, and Eliot the patriot, had 1 known no such liberty' as Eliot the... | |
 | 1832 - 1014 Seiten
...of a prison the fate destined for him by revolutionary violence. But " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." It is in such moments of gloom and depression, when the fortune of the world seems most... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 Seiten
...the accomplished Lovelace, when confined in the Gatehouse at Westminster; Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage. During his imprisonment he composed the Shepherd's Hunting, a pastoral poem of great beauty, and containing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 452 Seiten
...spirit, though without the eloquence of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." The hymn of De Foe commences thus : " Hail ! Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to punish fancy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 436 Seiten
...spirit, though without the eloquence of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." The hymn of De Foe commences thus: " Hail ! Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to punish fancy... | |
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