...no such liberty. 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...

...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...

...adversity God has extracted manna for the nourishment of his church in the wilderness. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. For though men keep my outward man Within their locks and bars, Yet by the faith of Christ...

...grates ; " When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. * * * * " Stone walls do not...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...