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And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
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Charles Dickens
"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.
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George Canning
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.
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Paul Pelisson
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell To wicked souls is hell.
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Richard Lovelace
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
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Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
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William Cowper
Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.
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William Kendrick
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
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William Shakespeare
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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William Shakespeare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
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