text:  Homer Pindar Alcaeus AEschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes or Lucretius Virgil Horace Ovid upon the one side; and upon the other Herodotus and Thucydides Demosthenes Plato and the Stagyrite--or under another still fortunate sky Livy Caesar Tacitus Cicero and Seneca--here bare names of the poets on the one side of the writers of prose on the other express alike to our soberest judgment and to our most awakened enthusiasm nothing less than two distinct _Worlds of Thinking_