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
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Head Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill; Аз... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 Seiten
...1735 (Scott, xviii. 3-17). llalifax.'s letter is dated 6th October, 1709, and is in Scott, xv. 348. "The Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour...it is hard to say, whether the advancement of the Fine Arts is more owing to his generosity or his example." — POPE : Prvfuce to fliml. " Fed with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 Seiten
...1735 (Scott, xviii. 327). Halifax's letter is dated 6th October, 1709, and is in Scott, xv. 348. " The Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour...it is hard to say, whether the advancement of the Fine Arts is more owing to his generosity or his example." — POPE : Preface to Iliad. " Fed with... | |
| 1855 - 824 Seiten
...Mas ¿á qué hacer vanos esfuerzos para enumerar las incontables bellezas de este libro de libros? "Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all...to read And Homer will be all the books you need." ' Por el estudio dt; éste y los demás clásicos, es por el que todos los hombres célebres por su... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...well. There 's no such thing in nature, and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee... | |
| 1860 - 366 Seiten
...Bible without quoting from the Methodist Quarterly Review for October, 1842, what follows > Read llomer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean,- so poor. Verse shall seem prose ; but still persist to read, - And Homer will be all the books you need." This is... | |
| John Selby Watson - 1861 - 468 Seiten
...with Johnson's life) hondersponders it pretty well ; but even he must yield the palm. Read Hawkins once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Johnson's a dunce ; but still persist to read, And Hawkins -will be all the books you need. " Of the... | |
| Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1862 - 186 Seiten
...learned and distinguished English nobleman carried his admiration of one of them so far as to exclaim: " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...read, And Homer will be all the books you need."* The classics have been tried for centuries ; their value and utility have often been denied, but they... | |
| 1862 - 412 Seiten
...learned and distinguished English nobleman carried his admiration of one of them so far as to exclaim : " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."f The classics have been tried for centuries; their value and utility have been often denied,... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1862 - 366 Seiten
...of ihz Bible without quoting from the Methodist Quarterly Review for October, 1843, what follows : Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, BO poor. Verse shall seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."... | |
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