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. A Manual of English Literature - Seite 324von Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| English poets - 1801 - 488 Seiten
...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...— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has charged this line into " When, linnet. " like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 474 Seiten
...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...Angels alone, that soar above, , Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy hat changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which it more intelligible.... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 Seiten
...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 Enjoy such liberly. 'Ifi/'HY dost thou say I am forsworn, * * Since thine I vow'd to be ? Lady, it is already... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 Seiten
...bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, Ami in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.'* Butler, however, probably borrowed his thought from the reasoning of Justice Adam Overdo, in Ben Jonson's... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...wincles that curie the flood Know no such libertie. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron harres a cage ; Minds innocent, and quiet take That for an...my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soare above, Enjoy such libertie. § 181. The Braet of yarrow, in Imitation of ike ancient Scott Manner.... | |
| Richard Lovelace - 1817 - 284 Seiten
...how 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...; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. Iking TO ELINDA. FOR cherries plenty, and for currans, Enough for fifty were there more on's ; For... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...during his confinement in the Gatehouse, Westminster, is the same thought : " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." Butler, however, probably borrowed his thought from the reasoning of Justice Adam Overdo, in Ben Jonson's... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 Seiten
...fetter'd to 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...Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The song called the Scrutiny is a most delightful piece of male coquetry. It is written in the happiest... | |
| 1821 - 408 Seiten
...fetter'd to 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...Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The song called the Scrutiny is a most delightful piece of male coquetry. It is written in the happiest... | |
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 Seiten
...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...Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. This song has been much, and very justly admired, and if he had composed nothing more, .vould have... | |
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