Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. The Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 408von Alexander Pope - 1822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| David Simpson - 1809 - 410 Seiten
...inestimable volume, it would be used with the strictest propriety and decorum ! " Read God's word, once, and you can read no more ; For all books else...Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And God's word will be all the books you need." The Bible abounds with a vast variety of matter, a confused... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...endless fame, And universal shouts, attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, l''or ~ BZ z1J3 L [ J2 Mn e "z Q 1+ ( 7 4= Y ` I # C: }Z҂f- - A d F 7+Y> g s P # Had Bossu never writ, the world had still Like Indians view'd this wond'rous piece el skill , As something... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 490 Seiten
...— ivcu i endless ra . ....t-iMii shouts attend their name! Read Homer once, and you can read no me For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to re And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Mos.su never writ, the world had still, Like Indians,... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 Seiten
...humankind : Nature's whole strength united ,' endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elite appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 Seiten
...Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, A:id universal shouts attend their name ! Read Honier once, and you can read no more, For all books else...Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Honier will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd... | |
| David Simpson - 1810 - 422 Seiten
...the greiitest poet in the work! ci.u'.d \u>v ^w\ u\\o • " Read GOD'S Word once, and you can resd.no more : For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, Arid GOD'S Word will be all the books you need." In short, MY COUNTRYMEN, the Bible abounds with a... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 Seiten
...complete a praise: v Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, and poor. Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you пссч!. That the earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 Seiten
...complete a JN.M -с Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, and poor. Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books yon need. That the cnrl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 Seiten
...displeased I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent essay) so complete a praise: Read Homer once and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, and poor. Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.... | |
| 1813 - 350 Seiten
...I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise: ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, to poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.'... | |
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