 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Books - 1827 - 548 pages
...stand by that good earle and thee." OLD MORTALITY, vol. iii. chap. ii. p. 101. " 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... | |
 | Horace Smith - English fiction - 1827 - 386 pages
...child until the carriage arrived at Harpsden Hall. REUBEN APSLEY. CHAPTER VIII. " 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,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...stand by that good earle and thee." OLD MORTALITY, vol. iii. chap. ii. p. 101. " 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, — Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor...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... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...however, could 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... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pages
...much the 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 - 548 pages
...much the boast of the age. In a strain of manly satire, De Foe could say :— '" Slone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." • * Hymn to the Pillory. The leisure of De Foe, in the time of his captivity, was not that of idleness... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...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 hermitage." CHAPTER XVII. iVatural defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Nnvarete ; Saundevson... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...resolute 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...resolute 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... | |
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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. 
