Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 169
w his dehght in them andhis keen observation. The ox is described as if he were, likethe Irishmans pig, a member of the family ; the snail is the house-carrier, the ant is the knowing one, the cuttle-fishis the boneless one, wild beasts are forest-sleepers, theswallow is early-wailing, the spider… … 36. Foundations of Arou.os Tempi.k, West DF,i,riii THE DARK AGE doubtful authenticity. As regards Hesiods keen observationof nature, what could be more Wordsworthian than his likeningof a certain kind of tree-leaf as it unfolds in spring to the foot of an alighting raven ? But there is a dark side…
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