 | George Wither - 1622 - 476 pages
...and live again. 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 iron... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...no such liberty. When linnet like confined) I With shriller note shall sin;, 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... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my KING ; When 1 shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be ; — Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my KING ; When 1 shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be ;— Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. " Stone walls do not a prison...bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. If 1 have freedom in my love. And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 pages
...the spirit, though without the eloquence, of the gallant old cavalier, Lovelace. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. The hymn of De Foe commences thus : Hail 1 Hi'roglyphick State Machine, Condemn'd to punish... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...carriage arrived at Harpsden Hall. 't / ii '-. ti • ,. ,. i , CHAPTER VIIL '• Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for ;m hermitage. — If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. / Stone walls do not a prison...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... | |
 | 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 ; Riigendas... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 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 hermilage." CHAPTER XVII. Natural Defects overcome : Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson;... | |
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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. 
