This "singular-looking apostle of the meeting in Skipper's Lane"-with his rare purity of heart, his unworldliness, his zeal in the cause of dissent, his restless argumentative spirit, and the moving memories of romance and passion hidden beneath the odd, quaint physique of the little minister encased in rusty black-is among the most loving and lovable of characters, and recalls more particularly that passage in the poem entitled 'A Minor Prophet,' which I cannot but think one of the author's finest, the passage beginning- "The pathos exquisite of lovely minds Hid in harsh forms-not penetrating them Like fire divine within a common bush Which glows transfigured by the heavenly guest, So that men put their shoes off; but Encaged Like a sweet child within some thick-walled cell, Who leaps and fails to hold the window-bars, But having shown a little dimpled hand, Is visited thenceforth by tender hearts Whose eyes keep watch about the prison walls."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Kenelm followed the maid across the hall into a room not built at the date of Kenelm's former visits to the house: the artist, making Grasmere his chief residence after Lily's death, had added it at the back of the neglected place wherein Lily had Encaged "the souls of infants unbaptized."
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
His aspect is that of a tiger Encaged, chafing at the torture, regardless of what may be the end.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid