The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
"An exile——

Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong."

Prophecy of Dante, iv. 131, 132.] 

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"The harvest of a quiet eye."

A Poet's Epitaph, line 51, Works of W. Wordsworth, 1889, p. 116.] 

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I saw them with their lake below,

And their three thousand years of snow.—[MS.]

[29] [This, according to Ruskin's canon, may be a poetical inaccuracy. The Rhone is blue below the lake at Geneva, but "les embouchures" at Villeneuve are muddy and discoloured.] 

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[30] [Villeneuve.]

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[31] Between the entrances of the Rhone and Villeneuve, not far from Chillon, is a very small island [Ile de Paix]; the only one I could perceive in my voyage round and over the lake, within its circumference. It contains a few trees (I think not above three), and from its singleness and diminutive size has a peculiar effect upon the view.

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"Of Silver How, and Grasmere's peaceful lake,


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