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. Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer - Страница 135по Walter Scott - 1820 - 241 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 страници
...translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter. — Mdison. DCCCCLX1II. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. DCCCCLXIV. They who place themselves on that side of the world in which every thing appears in a ridiculous... | |
| William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 страници
...impart, But there — the plague of death or life, (G— save me!) I shall find my wife ! A TRUISM. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...— A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. He that the worth of friends would know Must for instruction to a prison go : The want of... | |
| 1829 - 642 страници
...production, probably, of some insolvent poetaster — were inscribed the following emphatic Hues : A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and... | |
| 1829 - 516 страници
...production, probably, of some Insolvent poetaster — were inscribed the following emphatic lines: Л prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a frieiid, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong. Sometimes... | |
| 1829 - 514 страници
...a house of care, A place where none can thrive* A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and thieve-», And honest men among. The historical recollections connected with the hau... | |
| 1831 - 470 страници
...my story. I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory. from fOhltut'mt. THE CHARACTER OF A PRISON. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rngues and thieves, And honest men among. [The sui joined faithful picture of the abode of misery and... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 страници
...the Hull of the Old Tolbooth, or common Prison of Edinburgh, with the following stanza additional : Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of iades and thieves. Or if she be discontented, Lord ! how am I then tormented ! And am ready to persuade... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 страници
...the Old Tolbootb, or common Prison of Edinburgh, with the following stanza additional : Sometimes • place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of ;ades and thieves, And honest men among. — S. Or if she he discontented, Lord ! how am I then tormented... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835 - 222 страници
...beholders she swooned on his bosom, and was carried to her chamber ere she recovered. CHAPTER IV. " A prison is a house of care,' A place where none can thrive." " A PRISON is a house of care," saith our motto. What then is a convent * Alas ! if a place of much innocent... | |
| 536 страници
...яте superior to hum. ж opinions. — ML BAUTAIN, Professor of Philosophy, Strasburg. A PRISON. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Someiimes a place for logues and thieves And honest men among. Quarterly subscriptions at Is. received... | |
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