"He sighed, and turned his eyes, because he knew
'Twas but a larger jail he had in view."
Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, bk. i. lines 216, 217.
Compare, too—
"An exile——
Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong."
Prophecy of Dante, iv. 131, 132.]
[28] [Compare—
"The harvest of a quiet eye."
A Poet's Epitaph, line 51, Works of W. Wordsworth, 1889, p. 116.]
I saw them with their lake below,
And their three thousand years of snow.—[MS.]