[251] The correct reading is _tendebantque_ (_AEneid_, VI, 314), which
Arnold has altered to apply to the present case.
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[252] From _On The Study of Celtic Literature_, London, 1867, chap. VI.
It was previously published in the _Cornhill Magazine_, vols. XIII and
XIV, March-July, 1866. In the Introduction to the book Arnold says: "The
following remarks on the study of Celtic literature formed the substance
of four lectures given by me last year and the year before in the chair
of poetry at Oxford." The chapter is slightly abridged in the present
selection.
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[253] _Paradise Lost_, III, 32-35.
[254] _Tasso_, I, 2, 304-05.
[255] ~Menander~. The most famous Greek poet of the New Comedy (342-291
B.C.).
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[256] ~Gemeinheit~. Arnold defines the word five lines below.
[257] See _The Function of Criticism, Selections_, Note 2, p. 42.
[Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 42 in this e-text.]
[258] ~Bossuet~.
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