[111]
[74] _Endymion_, 2. 349-350.
[75] See p. 68.
[76] _Iliad_, 21. 212-360.
[77] Compare _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, canto i. stanza 15, and
canto v. stanza 2. In the first instance, the river-spirit is
accurately the Homeric god, only Homer would have believed in
it,--Scott did not, at least not altogether. [Ruskin.]
[78] _The Excursion_, 4. 861-871.
[79] _Genesis_ xxviii, 12; xxxii, 1; xxii, 11; _Joshua_ v, 13 ff.;
_Judges_ xiii, 3 ff.
[80] _Iliad_, 5. 846.
[81] _Iliad_, 1. 43.
[82] _Iliad_, 21. 489 ff.
[83] Compare the exquisite lines of Longfellow on the sunset in
_The Golden Legend_:--
The day is done; and slowly from the scene
The stooping sun up-gathers his spent shafts.
And puts them back into his golden quiver. [Ruskin.]
[84] _Iliad_, 3. 365.
[85] _Iliad_, 3. 406 ff.
[86] _Iliad_, 4. 141. [Ruskin.]
[87] _Odyssey_, 5. 63-74.
[88] _Iliad_, 2. 776. [Ruskin.]
[89] _Odyssey_ 7. 112-132.
[90] _Odyssey_, 24. 334 ff.
[91] _Odyssey_, 6. 162.
[92] _Odyssey_, 6. 291-292.
[93] _Odyssey_, 10. 510. [Ruskin.]
[94] Compare the passage in Dante referred to above, p. 60.
[Ruskin.]
[95] _Iliad_, 4. 482-487.
[96] Pollards, trees polled or cut back at some height above the
ground, producing a thick growth of young branches in a rounded
mass.
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