Prison. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Prison


Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage. Lovelace.—To Althea from Prison; 2 Percy Rel. 343.	1
A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive; A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Anonymous.—Inscription in Edinburgh Tolbooth.	2
If lovers, Cupid! are thy care, Exert thy vengeance on this fair, To trial bring her stolen charms, And let her prison be my arms. Earl of Egremont.—The Fair Thief; from Collet.	3
You shall have no worse prison than my chamber, Nor jailer than myself. The Captain.—Scott, Peveril of the Peak, Chap. VI.	4
Such prisons are beyond all liberty. Suckling.—Brennoralt, Act IV.	5
Prison’d in a parlour, snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. Cowper.—Retirement, Line 493.	6