 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 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 : I f I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am tree, Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron liars 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 lhat soar above, Enjoy such liberty. A writer of such sentiments as these would not be driven from... | |
 | Christian saints - 1845 - 324 pages
...see nothing E out of doors, but the blue sky or the heavy clouds over his head. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. Such was the sentiment of a soldier of this world ; the great combatants for the next have fulfilled... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...LOVELACE, has beautifully said, writing also 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. Natural deft'cts overcome. Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Sa'.mderson... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...solitude of aprison 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... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 454 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me — " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage." "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this place;... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me — " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage } Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage." "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this place;... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me — " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage.'* "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his ,own rude but vigorous rhymes, the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude but vigorous rhymes, 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. 
