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
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...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... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1879 - 474 Seiten
...willing prisoner in a good cause can sing in his chains : — "Stone walls do not a prison make, Or iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. If I have comfort in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels .iluiie, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." To... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...packs and sets of great ones. That ebb and flow by th' moon. Shakspere. 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... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 Seiten
...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 an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone that soar above... | |
| Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 510 Seiten
...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,... | |
| 1853 - 560 Seiten
...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 an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 Seiten
...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 the First... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 Seiten
...lines must have had consolations which his persecutors could not feel : " 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,... | |
| Anne Manning - 1853 - 264 Seiten
...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,... | |
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