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
| Fifty celebrated men - 1881 - 360 страници
...amelioration of our criminals, deserve especial notice. We shall allude first of all to John Howard. " A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men amoni;." If stones could cry out of the walls, how many stones of grief and terror might be told by... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 страници
...vuult's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom. /i. BIBOS— Sonnet. On Clullan. 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 placo of rogues and... | |
| 1882 - 1434 страници
...a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men o and Juliet. Act II. i. Inscription on the Old Prison of Edinburgh. I have been studying how I may compare This prison,... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 страници
...country conquers with their martyrdom. It. Втвоя— Sonnet. On Chilhn. A prison is a house of cart1, returns When last we parted! Even now I feel Its dewy freshness in my soul. s men alive. Sonic-times a place of right, .Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
| Almon Benson Richmond - 1883 - 658 страници
...need fear no law ; It Is bis safety, and the bad man's awe." — Ben Jonton. " A prison Is a honse of care. A place where none can thrive ; A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive ; Someumes a place of right. Someumes a place of wrong ; Someumes a place of rogues and thieves. And... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1885 - 450 страници
...in Russia. You can persuade Mr. Cheriton that it ought to form part of your grand tour." CAPTURED. ' 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 of rogues and... | |
| Walter Scott - 1886 - 536 страници
...rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. Looties, plunderers. CHAPTER FORTY-FOURTH. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A gra\;e for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of... | |
| John William Horsley - 1887 - 320 страници
...apparently are the lines prefixed to his essays in a reprint that appeared in 1821, which run thus: "A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among." :;: X* -!* ^ JlIn these days of yachting round the world, and of running out to Calcutta for a short... | |
| 1887 - 1332 страници
...faithless leather, met the dirt, And oftener changed their principles than shirt. Young. Prison. 1. A prison is a house of care, a place where none can thrive ; Sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves and... | |
| Frank Peel - 1888 - 366 страници
...LEADER. But far too numerous is the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. Drydcn. A prison is a house of care— A place where none...right. Sometimes a place of wrong ; Sometimes a place for rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tolbooth. The magistrates and... | |
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