On each hand parting, to his speed gave way Through all th' empyreal road; till at the gate Of heaven arrived, the gate self-open'd wide, On golden hinges turning." --"Paradise Lost," v. 250. 156 "Till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light." --"Paradise Lost," vi, 2. 157 --_Far as a shepherd._ "With what majesty and pomp does Homer exalt his deities! He here measures the leap of the horses by the extent of the world. And who is there, that, considering the exceeding greatness of the space would not with reason cry out that 'If the steeds of the deity were to take a second leap, the world would want room for it'?"--Longinus, Section 8. 158 "No trumpets, or any other instruments of sound, are used in the Homeric action itself; but the trumpet was known, and is introduced for the purpose of illustration as employed in war. Hence arose the value of a loud voice in a commander; Stentor was an indispensable officer... In the early Saracen campaigns frequent mention is made of the service rendered by men of uncommonly strong voices; the battle of Honain was restored by the shouts and menaces of Abbas, the uncle of Mohammed," &c.--Coleridge, p. 213. 159 "Long had the wav'ring god the war delay'd, While Greece and Troy alternate own'd his aid." Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," vi. 761, sq. 160 --_Paeon_ seems to have been to the gods, what Podaleirius and Machaon were to the Grecian heroes. 161 --_Arisbe,_ a colony of the Mitylenaeans in Troas. 162 --_Pedasus,_ a town near Pylos. 163 --_Rich heaps of brass._ "The halls of Alkinous and Menelaus glitter with gold, copper, and electrum; while large stocks of yet unemployed met