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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. "
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 1081
1791
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...should be, Th' 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, Enjoy such liberty....
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...should be; Enlarged winds that curie the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedome in my love, And in my soule am free; Angels alone that soar above Injoy such libertie....
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The Dublin Review, Volume 33

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pages
...joy which bind faster than iron or brass. Our declaimers forget, that " Strong walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. * By enclosed orders we mean such as have no external duties that require going beyond the convent...
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The Kinnears [by H. Keddie].

Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pages
...to the light foot of a heedless new-comer. Well ! what of that ? " Stone v.-; ill- do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Willie would allow them a decent maintenance out of his income, and there they might...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...packs and sets of great ones. That ebb and flow by th' moon. Shakspere. 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....
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...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 an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty....
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

1853 - 560 pages
...says, in his poem to Althea, (page 73,) — INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. XXI. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." This is one of the privileges of genius, that, out of circumstances intended to degrade, it can draw...
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Clan-Albyn: a National Tale

Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 510 pages
...on preventing all intercourse between Norman and Monimia. CHAPTER XXSTV. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. While I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...I, ¡n whose cause Lovelace was then in ргшш. — CJ Stone walls do not a prison make, Xor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in mv love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty....
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Once Upon a Time, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pages
...lines must have had consolations which his persecutors could not feel : " 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."...
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