[61.] The reader will observe, that Admiration through the whole of this part of the Essay is taken in the largest sense, as including a considerable degree of wonder, which is however a distinct feeling. The former is excited principally by the sublime; the latter by the new and uncommon. These feelings are united, when a subject of moderate dignity is treated in a sublime manner. See the Essay, p. 47, 48.

[62.] Raphael is said to have stolen the expression of this figure from Michael Angelo, who was at work on the same subject in another part of the Vatican. We are indebted for this curious anecdote to the ingenious Abbe du Bos. See his Reflex. Crit. sur la Poes. et la Peint. Vol. II.

[63.] Callim. Hymn. in Jov. a lin. 68. [G]

[64.] Pind. Pyth. I.

[65.] Iliad. Lib. VIII. [H]

[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.

Αναξιφορμιγγες ὑμνοι

τινα θεον, τιν’ ἡροα,

τινα δ’ ανδρα κελαδησομεν;

ητοι πισα μεν Διος‧