 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...Know 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 is, how great should be, The enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...if importunity or idle respects5 1 In fact. Really ; virtually. 2 Voice. To assert ; to declare. ' When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be.' — Lovelace. 3 Steal. To do secretly. ' 'Twere good to steal our marriage.'— Shakespere. * Inward.... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...steep, When healths and draughts go free, — Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat...sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king;i 1 Charles I., in whose cause Lovelace was then in prison. When I shall voice aloud how good... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how 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; Minda, innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 pages
...steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. 3 When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat...winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. 4 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an... | |
 | 1861 - 790 pages
...steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. ill. " When like committed linnets, I With shriller throat...When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great shall be, Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Kuow no such liberty. IV. " Stone Avails do not a prison... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. * * # * " When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy,...Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 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 is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 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 is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 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 is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor... | |
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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. 
