That's why the men who want to hurry up and start a new political era imprison kings and cut their heads off.

Go back, dear child, from a work thou canst not understand, and imprison sunbeams for the panting world in flowery valleys!

Goldsmith has somewhat sarcastically lamented that the appetites of the rich do not increase with their wealth; in like manner, it would be a grievous thing could liberty be monopolized or scraped into heaps like wealth; a petty tyrant may persecute and imprison thousands, but he cannot thereby add one hour or inch to his own liberty.