cup of thirst, and eat the bread of toil.[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.

[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 Surre