...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 a prison...bars a cage, 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...

...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 a prisoner....

...from the unfortunate, and leave them to solitude and anguish ! CHAPTER XXV. " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." THE Boston jail was at this time a small and inconvenient building, situated in what...

...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 an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my lore, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above,...

...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...

...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 as that of...

...not a prison make, Nor iron hars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. " lf l have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar ahove, Enjoy such liherty." JLovclace't Poems. f His walking stick. of timber, and I a most dull and...

...great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walh do not a t be invented, or by man's wit imagined. an hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angela alone, that soar above,...

...desolate. My sans culotte\, like Johnson's in Scotland, becomes a valuable piece . * " 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,...

...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...