 | William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 σελίδες
...of a gaol. These men have proved the truth of Lovelace's elegant stanza : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Nor is age an insuperable obstacle to the acquirement of knowledge. It is never too late... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 340 σελίδες
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...take That for an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." " There," said he,... | |
 | 1848 - 690 σελίδες
...confined for debt, and his first greeting w:as a quotation from Lovelace : — Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage : Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. We thank Mr. Jesse for bringing the lines to our remembrance. In the Gate-house died Sir Geoffry Hudson... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 σελίδες
...in her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, 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." This accomplished man, who is said by Wood to have been in his youth " the most amiable and beautiful... | |
 | David Creamer - 1848 - 488 σελίδες
...the Gatehouse at Westminster, more than a century before Newton wrote : — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." Though his body was immured within the walls of a prison, Lovelace felt that he was not... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 470 σελίδες
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. " If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 652 σελίδες
...Westminster he composed some of his sweetest poems." And the young man repeated, — " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. " If I have freedom in my love, And in rny soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 440 σελίδες
...if this young man had passed his long captivity in murmurings and discontent. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." We must now return to our English king, whose mind was by no means in so tranquil a state... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 950 σελίδες
...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 Th«f for a hermitage." In Banyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 σελίδες
...solitude 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 adverse, when... | |
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Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. 
