 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 374 pages
...rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. . CHAPTER V. A prison ig a house of care/ \ 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 - 1817 - 382 pages
...flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER V. A prison is a bouse 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 - 1820 - 312 pages
...to his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XII. ' 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... | |
 | Geffray Minshull - 1821 - 136 pages
...Mmfhulf Jemmfhul EDINBURGH : REPRINTED FOR W. AND C. TAIT, TBy James Batlantgne atrti &a. ^ MDCCCXXI. : 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 254 pages
...horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. vor.. HI. CHAPTER V. ) 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 514 pages
...to his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XXIII. 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... | |
 | John Badcock - 1823 - 222 pages
...volume may be considered the author's ' Limbo of Oddities.' ' Cast into Limbo' — sent to a 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, Sometime* a place of rogues and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 386 pages
...to his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XXIII. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friendj A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong. Sometimes a... | |
 | 1823 - 614 pages
...and my jest : Awhile I'll leave her to repose, Hereafter " offagain she goes." REFLECTION IN NEWGATE. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive ; A touchstone there to try a friend, A grave for men alive. MB HEIGH-HO FOR A HUSBAND! OR, AN OLD THING BETTER THAN... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...production, probably, of some insolvent poetaster — were inscribed the following emphatic Hues : 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,... | |
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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. 
