 | George Wither - 1622 - 476 pages
...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....hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul ani fjree, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. So thus enclos'd, I bear Affliction's... | |
 | 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...hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my foul am free, Angels alone that foar above Enjoy fuch liberty." though. though it was, fhe thought,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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...free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy has charged this line into " When, linnet. " like confined, I," which is more... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...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...free, — Angels alone, that soar above, , Enjoy such liberty. * Dr. Percy hat changed this line into " When, linnet" like confined, I," which it more intelligible.... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...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...That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love APHARA BEHN. 1656. This celebrated female writer is supposed to have been born in the reign of Charles... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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....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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...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...am free ; 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... | |
 | 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...free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. Among the poete abo tn whom we arc indebted for an amelioration of опт taste and language,... | |
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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... 
