 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,...  A Manual of English Literature - Page 322by Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...flamens, and (as between two stools) going away in the end without his supper ! Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. THE OCEAN. BY JOHN AUGUSTUS SULA. Likeness of Heaven ! Agent of power! Man is thy victim ! Shipwrecks... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...how great should be, Enlargëd 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 a hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 340 pages
...great 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 a hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 pages
...great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds, innocent...Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. A writer of such sentiments as these would not be driven from any abstract idea, by a residence in... | |
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