Nec vero Alcides tantum telluris obivit;
Nec qui pampineis victor juga flectit habenis,
Liber, agens celso Nisæ de vertice tigres * *
Tu regere imperio populos, &c.
Virg. Æn. vi.
It is the glory of England to be able to claim the excellence in which Virgil admitted that the Romans were surpassed:
Excudent alii spirantia mollius æra,
Credo equidem; vivos ducent de marmore vultus;
Orabunt causas melius, cœlique meatus
Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent.