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
| 1863 - 686 Seiten
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| 1863 - 588 Seiten
...Scriptores, cedite Graii." ' Read Midnight once, and you can read no more, For all books else will aeem ao mean, so poor ! Verse will seem prose — but still persist to read, And Midnight will be all the books you need. ' BUCKINGHAM.1 London : Printed for Thomas Carnan, at J. Newbery's,... | |
| Samuel Chew - 1864 - 168 Seiten
...be applied, in a qualified sense, what has been said by an enthusiast of the writings of Homer:— "Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." I would advise you—especially those of your number who have but recently commenced the study of medicine—to... | |
| Samuel Chew - 1864 - 164 Seiten
...be applied, in a qualified sense, what has been said by an enthusiast of the writings of Homer: — "Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books.you need." I would advise you — especially those of your number who have but recently commenced... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Ibid. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Ibid. NATHANIEL LEE. 1650-1692. Then he will talk — good gods, how he will talk ! Alexander the Great.... | |
| Holton Library, Brighton, Mass - 1865 - 280 Seiten
...tasting the master-writers of song or prose, would never desire inferior authors. Thus he charges : — " Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." 22 tion, have gone also, and far more numerously, upon the shelves such other books as considerations... | |
| 1909 - 348 Seiten
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| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progrest of Learning, 41. Road Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor ; Verse may seem prose ; but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need. Sheffield, Duke... | |
| 1879 - 610 Seiten
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| 1879 - 612 Seiten
...rhyming stanzas, a variation which will be diversely estimated, though hardly found fault with. ' Head Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...prose : but still persist to read, And Homer -will bo all the Books you need.' That Homer will be read more than ever for the marvellous battle-pieces... | |
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