 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
 | Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 558 Seiten
...At the end of this copy of the Turnebus Homer, " in the Cracherode Collection, are these lines : " Read Homer once, and you can read no more, " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." Anecdotes, vip 105-6. See Dibdin's Introd. vip 391-2; and Brunet, t. ii. p. 126. PARIS. 4to. 1562 et... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 426 Seiten
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 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 Seiten
...verse, without losing much of their -majesty and pathos," •'Read God's Word once, and you can read n» more: For all books else appear so mean, so poor,...Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, And God's Word will be all the books you need." In short, my Countrymen, the Bible abounds with a vast... | |
 | 1826 - 438 Seiten
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 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 Seiten
...displeased'! should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Sssay) so complete a praise: ' anged to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly...paid for Nisus' injured hair I But when to mischie pi ose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need ;' That the earl of Halifax... | |
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 | Peter Cunningham - 1828 - 74 Seiten
...Mortal, poMlo In nun tuilu Qunl sj •«•!»»- II nulru, o qiml dolor lo Mruygn. NOTES. NOTE I. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need. " Essay on Poetry, by the DUKE of BUCKINGHAM. NOTE II. " Sure fate of ALL, beneath whose rising ray... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 66 Seiten
...REMOVED, HERE FOX ENJOYED HIS EVENING HOUR, IN CONVERSE WITH THE FRIENDS HE LOVED: ***" NOTES. NOTE I. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." Essay on Poetry, by the Duke of Buckingham. NOTE II. " Sure fate of ALL, beneath whose rising ray "... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 Seiten
...Odyssey; even though, for that reason, we should not go so far as to agree entirely with the author : ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...read, And Homer will be all the books you need*.' " " I must thank you," said Mr. Hartley to Mr. Paulett, " for your seasonable evidence in support of... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 Seiten
...Odyssey; even though, for that reason, we should not go so far as to agree entirely with the author : ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...else appear so mean, so poor : Verse will seem prose : bat still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need*.' " " I must thank you," said... | |
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