 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 頁
...Than to bend the neck, and to bow the knee, In the proudest palace of slavery. OLEARIUS. THE PRISON. A PRISON is a house of care, A place where none can...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. TRUTH. " FAS EST AR HOSTE DOCERI." YiRGIL. SEIZE upon truth where'er tis found—- Amongst your friends,... | |
 | 1867 - 632 頁
...it — Onward ! bear ; Bend not to tho fiercest foe. S6 THE BASTILLE. A prison is s house of oare, 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 plate of wrong ; Sometimes a place for rogues and... | |
 | 1872 - 592 頁
...A QUOTATION. — Can any reader of '•' X. & Q." inform me who was the author of the following;' " A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive," T. ETHE. Hayfield, near Stockport. A SHOWER OF BLACK WORMS. — " A letter from Bucharest reports a... | |
 | William Chambers, William III Chambers - 1872 - 350 頁
...inscription, that is said to have been originally and specially designed for the King's Bench Prison : ' A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — Sometimes a house of right, Sometimes a house of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and thieves,... | |
 | 1872 - 602 頁
...inform me, who was the author of the following ? " A prison is a house of care, A place where nope can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive." T. EIRE. Ilayfield, near Stockporfc. A SHOWER OF BLACK WORMS.— " A letter from Bucharest reports... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 頁
...Souls innocent and quiet t -- i-.o These for an hermitage." Bat I also know that MA prison ia a honse 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 ; Always a place for rogues and thieves,... | |
 | Martino Beltrani Scalia - 1874 - 304 頁
...nella seconda pagina, tien dietro la seguente, non meno originale: A prison is a house of care A piace where none can thrive A touchstone true to try a friend A grave for one alive. Sometimes a piace of rigbt Sometimes a piace of wrong Sometimes a piace of rogues and thieves... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 頁
...Loath. "To gfye pain is the tyranny, to make Imppy the true empire, ot beauty."— Steelc. b Roberts. A prison is a house of care, a place where none can thrive, a touchstone trne to try a friend, a grave for one olive ; sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place of wrong,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 頁
...one's name in PRINT ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. BYRON, English Bank. Prison. — 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 頁
...against his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAP. XLIV. 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 vjrong. Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
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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. 
