 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...  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 128edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1791 - 718 pages
...fhoiild be, Th1 enlarged winds that curb the flood Know no fucli liberty. Stone walls do not a prifou make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If 1 have freedom in my I >vc, A nd in my foul am free, Angels alone, that foar above,... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - English fiction - 1796 - 280 pages
...fetter•d with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no fuch liberty. Stone walls do not a prifon 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 foul am free, Angels alone that foar above Enjoy... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...Dr. Percy's. When, like committed linnets, I* With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice...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... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I * With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king ; When I shall voice...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,... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...no such liberty. When, linnet-like, confined I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King; When I shall voice...bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love APHARA BEHN. 1656. This celebrated female writer is supposed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...Althea, during his confinement in the Gate-house, Westminster, ii the same thought: "Stone walto 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, Ami in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
 | Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...such liberty. When (like committed linnets) I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my KING ; When I shall voice...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air Have no euch 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... | |
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