[97] Quoted, with some omission, from chapter 12.
[98] _Odyssey_, 11. 572; 24. 13. The couch of Ceres, with Homer's
usual faithfulness, is made of a _ploughed_ field, 5. 127.
[Ruskin.]
[99] _Odyssey_, 12. 45.
[100] _Odyssey_, 4. 605.
[101] _Iliad_, 21. 351.
[102] _Odyssey_, 5. 398, 463. [Ruskin.]
[103] _Odyssey_, 12. 357. [Ruskin.]
[104] _Odyssey_, 5. 481-493.
[105] _Odyssey_, 9. 132, etc. Hence Milton's
From haunted spring, and dale, Edged with poplar pale. [Ruskin.]
_Hymn on The Morning of Christ's Nativity_, 184-185.
[106] _Odyssey_, 9. 182.
[107] _Odyssey_, 10. 87-88.
[108] _Odyssey_, 13. 236, etc. [Ruskin.]
[109] Educated, as we shall see hereafter, first in this school.
Turner gave the hackneyed composition a strange power and
freshness, in his Glaucus and Scylla. [Ruskin.]
[110] Flodden, Flodden Field, a plain in Northumberland, famous as
the battlefield where James IV of Scotland was defeated by an
English army under the Earl of Surrey, Sept. 9, 1513. The sixth
canto of Scott's _Marmion_ gives a fairly accurate description of
the action.
_Chevy-Chase_, a famous old English ballad recounting the incidents
of the battle of Otterburn [Aug. 19, 1388] in which the Scots under
the Earl of Douglas defeated the English under the Percies.
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