Homer and Virgil! with what sacred awe, Do those mere sounds the world's attention draw! So these gigantic souls, amaz'd, we find As much above the rest of human kind. (Virgil)

Homer and Virgil! with what sacred awe, Do those mere sounds the world's attention draw! So these gigantic souls, amaz'd, we find As much above the rest of human kind.

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