ch drops his vengeful ire;
Perch'd on the sceptre of the Olympian King,
The thrilling darts of harmony he feels,
And indolently hangs his rapid wing,
While gentle sleep his closing eye-lids seals;
And o'er his heaving limbs, in loose array
To every balmy gale the ruffling feathers play. WEST.

[Footnote 64: Pind. Pyth. I.]

Homer never touches this sublime subject, without employing the utmost
reach of his invention to excite admiration in his reader.

+Zeus de Pater idethen eutrochon harma kai hippous
Olumpond' edioke, theon d' exeketo thokous.
To de kai hippous men luse klutos Ennosigaios
Harmata d' ambromoisi tithei, kata lita petassas.
Autos de chruseion epi thronon euruopa Zeus
Hezeto, to de hupo possi megas pelemizet' Olumpos+[65].

---- The Thund'rer meditates his flight
From Ida's summits to th' Olympian height.
Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly,
Flame thro' the vast of air, and reach the sky.
'Twas Neptune's charge his coursers to unbrace,
And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.
He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold,
Th' eternal Thunderer, sate thron'd in gold.
High heav'n the footstool of his feet He makes,
And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes. POPE.

[Footnote 65: Iliad. Lib. VIII.]

I have mentioned these examples, as they shew the light in which a great
object will be contemplated by a man of genius; and as the reader will
observe that our admiration is not merely excited by the dignity of the
theme, but that it results from the great and uncommon circumstances
which are happily thrown into the description. Pindar, no doubt, found
it a much easier task to raise this passion in favour of Theron, whom he
artfully introduceth to the reader's attention, after enquiring of his
Muse what God or what distinguished Heroe he should attempt to
celebrate[66].

[Footnote 66: This is one of the most artful and best conducted of
Pindar's Odes. The introduction is abrupt and spirited, and the
Heroe of the Poem is shown to great advantage.

+Anaxiphorminges humnoi
tina theon, tin' heroa,
tina d' andra keladesomen?
etoi pisa men Dios;
Olumpiada d' esta-
sen Eraklees+, &c.
+Therona de tetraorias
heneka nekaphorou
gegoneteon, ope+ &c. Pind. Olym. 2da.]

It is however obvious, from what hath been advanced on this subject,
that whatever may be the nature of t