 | George Wither - 1622 - 476 pages
...forgot ; Yet when both fame and life hath left those men, My verse and I'll revive, and live again. When, linnet-like, confined, I With shriller note...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.... | |
 | 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 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 make, Nor... | |
 | 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 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 make, Nor... | |
 | 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 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 make, Nor iron... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When linnet like confined) I With shriller note shall sin;, The mercy, sweetness, majesty And glories of my king...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 a hermitage.... | |
 | 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 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 make, Nor iron... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...of my king ; (a) In the original it is " gods." The correction, which is very happy, is Dr Percy's. 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 make, Nor... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...shriller note shall sing The mercye, sweetness, majestye, And glories of my king ; When 1 shall voyce aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such libertie. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron barrs a cage, Mimics, innocent and quiet, take... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...discovered by Dr. Bliss, it is also "riltra " hirds." See Wood's Ath. Ox. by Bliss, VoL III. coL 461. 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 make, Nor... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller notes shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King ; When I shall voice...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 a... | |
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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. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy... 
