prisonhouse

We face the dread of incarceration in the prisonhouse of society and culture, trapped in our corporeal, abject selves.

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So the eternal spirit in him, God's essence, conscious of its past brotherhood, with the morning stars, the White Aeons, in its prisonhouse writhed with the meanness, till at last he cried,

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

It is Her pleasure to take out of the prisonhouse and set free only one or two among a hundred thousand of her children!

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886

The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Much of the time he lay unconscious, and for weeks his life depended entirely on the untiring patience and skill with which his wife soothed down the rudeness of his prisonhouse, cheering him and other prisoners who were so fortunate as to be in the room with him, and alleviating the slow misery that was settling like a pall upon them.

Women of the War 1866

Many, in spite of all opposition, in the face of torture and death, will seek an asylum in foreign lands, and reveal to the ears of pitying indignation, the secrets of the prisonhouse.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856

Fearful key, which locks behind me the prisonhouse of life, and opens before me the habitations of eternal night -- tell me -- oh, tell me -- whither -- whither wilt thou lead me?

The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

Fearful key, which locks behind me the prisonhouse of life, and opens before me the habitations of eternal night -- tell me -- oh, tell me -- whither -- whither wilt thou lead me?

The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782