 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, — Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison...— Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has changed this line into " When, linnct" like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, — Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison...Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which is more intelligible.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...When I shall voice aloud, how good He is, how great should be; Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison...; 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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know...Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty." The song called ^he Scrutiny is a most delightful piece of male coquetry. It is written in the happiest... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know...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... | |
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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. 
