 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 頁
...against his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER 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 wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
 | Egerton Castle - 1899 - 466 頁
...her eyes and so intimated she desired to sleep. CHAPTER XIV THE TOWER OF LIVERPOOL: MASTER AND MAN A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A Touchstone True to try a friend, A Grave for man alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
 | John Flavel Curwen - 1900 - 518 頁
...instrument was used, but generally throughout the country it ceased to be used about the year 1824. " 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 place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and thieves, And... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Gatty - 1900 - 596 頁
...AliREY. And yet the authorities heavy iron railings as to be practically useless, might remember that " A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive," not even a sun-dial ! The finest specimen of an erect engraved metal dial which we have seen is a plate... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Gatty - 1900 - 576 頁
...AMIIEY. heavy iron railings as to be practically useless. And yet the authorities might remember that "A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrivr,'. not even a sun-dial ! The finest specimen of an erect engraved metal dial which we have seen... | |
 | Allen Culling Clark - 1901 - 388 頁
...the earth was his change of condition. On the tolbooth or city jail of Edinburgh is the inscription : 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... | |
 | Egerton Castle - 1901 - 542 頁
...her eyes and so intimated she desired to sleep. CHAPTER XIV THE TOWER OF LIVERPOOL: MASTER AND MAN A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A Touchstone True to try a friend, A Grave for man alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
 | Mary Gordon Williamson - 1906 - 386 頁
...end of the hall of the old Tolbooth was hung a board containing verses which thus described it:— ( 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 place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and thieves, And... | |
 | Frederick William Watkeys - 1908 - 472 頁
...end of the " Hall " o u O zT O ui H CQ .8 Z I hung a board on which were inscribed these lines: — " 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 place for men of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for jades and... | |
 | Wayland Fuller Dunaway - 1913 - 166 頁
...as he might have done; perhaps he was respecting the valor that he had lately witnessed. CHAPTER XI A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. —Inscription on the Old Prison of Edinburg. AFTER falling back from Hagerstown the army took up a... | |
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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. 
