Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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Note this con- stant dwelling on the marsh plants, or, at' least, those which grow in flat and well-irrigated land, or beside streams : when Scamander, for instance, is restrained by Vulcan, Homer says, very sorrowfully, that "all his lotus, and reeds, and rushes were burnt " ; * and thus Ulysses, after being shipwrecked and nearly drowned, * Odyssey, 11. 572; 24. 13. The couch of Ceres, with Homer's usual faithfulness, is made of a pUmghed field, 5. 127. [Ruskin.] * Odyssey, 12. 45.
■ Odyssey,... 4. 605.
* Iliad, 21. 351.
OF CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE 97 and beaten about the sea for many days and nights, on raft and mast, at last getting ashore at the mouth of a large river, casts himself down first upon its rushes, and then, in thankfulness, kisses the "corn-giving land," as most opposed, in his heart, to the fruitless and devouring sea.* In this same passage, also, we find some peculiar expressions of the delight which the Greeks had in trees; for, when Ulysses first comes in sight of land, which gladdens him "as the reviving of a father from his sickness gladdens his children," it is not merely the sight of the land itself which gives him such pleasure, but of the " land and wood,'' Homer never throws away any words, at least in such a place as this ; and what in another poet would have been merely the filling up of the deficient line with an otherwise useless word, is in him the expression of the general Greek sense, that land of any kind was in no wise grateful or acceptable till there was wood upon it (or corn; but the corn, in the flats, could not be seen so far as the black masses of forest on the hill sides), and that, as in being rushy and com -giving, the low land, so in being woody, the high land was most grateful to the mind of the man who for days and nights had been wearied on the engulphing sea.
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Note this con- stant dwelling on the marsh plants, or, at' least, those which grow in flat and well-irrigated land, or beside streams : when Scamander, for instance, is restrained by Vulcan, Homer says, very sorrowfully, that "all his lotus, and reeds, and rushes were burnt " ; * and thus Ulysses, after being shipwrecked and nearly drowned, * Odyssey, 11. 572; 24. 13. The couch of Ceres, with Homer's usual faithfulness, is made of a pUmghed field, 5. 127. [Ruskin.] * Odyssey, 12. 45.
■ Odyssey,... 4. 605.
* Iliad, 21. 351.
OF CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE 97 and beaten about the sea for many days and nights, on raft and mast, at last getting ashore at the mouth of a large river, casts himself down first upon its rushes, and then, in thankfulness, kisses the "corn-giving land," as most opposed, in his heart, to the fruitless and devouring sea.* In this same passage, also, we find some peculiar expressions of the delight which the Greeks had in trees; for, when Ulysses first comes in sight of land, which gladdens him "as the reviving of a father from his sickness gladdens his children," it is not merely the sight of the land itself which gives him such pleasure, but of the " land and wood,'' Homer never throws away any words, at least in such a place as this ; and what in another poet would have been merely the filling up of the deficient line with an otherwise useless word, is in him the expression of the general Greek sense, that land of any kind was in no wise grateful or acceptable till there was wood upon it (or corn; but the corn, in the flats, could not be seen so far as the black masses of forest on the hill sides), and that, as in being rushy and com -giving, the low land, so in being woody, the high land was most grateful to the mind of the man who for days and nights had been wearied on the engulphing sea.
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