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In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.

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It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he [Lucan] meant to rise still higher, is perfect bombast.

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Bio: Longinus is the conventional name of the author of the treatise On the Sublime, a work which focuses on the effect of good writing.

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