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as it were, a peg whereon to hang a few detached and, otherwise, unconnected fragments.[1] Such is the light in which I would have the reader regard them—and as such, I hope they will not prove altogether uninteresting to him. As to the imitations of Homer which present themselves at every page of our English Poets, the field is so wide, and the flowers so endless, that I prefer leaving them for the reader's own gathering—if he choose to undertake the task. They began to multiply upon my hands so fast, that I was compelled to omit them, or suffer the notes to swell beyond all bounds and proportion.
- ↑ One striking parallel from Scripture is omitted, I observe, at p.39. where, with the beginning of Nestor's harangue, (note 29, page 11.) should be compared 2 Samuel i. 20, "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph." See also Micah i, 10.
And with the commencement of Agamemnon's speech to Nestor, (last line at page 102, "Father of Greece," &c.) should be compared 2 Kings ii. 12. and xiii. 14. "My Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof."
Among a few other unnoticed errata, "Cat-and-Frog Fight" has been allowed to stand at page 61, under note 6. It should of course be "Cat-and-Mouse Fight" (Galeomyomachia), as indeed it corrects itself on the following page.
