 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
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 Seiten
...The Raven. " Rank is a great beautifier." BULWER LYTTON. Lady of Lyons (Melnotte), Act II., Sc. I. " 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."... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1900 - 238 Seiten
...giving Homer the palm of "loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse:— " 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."... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 Seiten
...not be Content to know, — what was too much for thee! — VAUGHAN, HENRY, 1678, Thalia Rediviva. Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. —SHEFFIELD, JOHN, 1682, Essays on Poetry. Books like proverbs receive their chief value from the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...human-kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Sir Richard Blackuiore (birth year unknown ; died 1729) was one of the most fortunate physicians and... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...Eetaliation. Potttcript. * These last four lines are attributed to Eochester. * See Snckling, page 257. Bead Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Eizay on Poetrt, THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. 0 woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man :... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...human-kirn! ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! Let not my pretty Susan mourn lie all the books you need. Sir Ku-liard Blackiuore (birth year unknown ; died 1729) was one of the... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 384 Seiten
...monster which the world ne'er saw' ? And all good Homerists will certainly endorse the following: ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer's will be all the books you need.' It is to another noble warrior, in many respects second only... | |
 | 1903 - 1272 Seiten
...and moving ; Whom all times' wisest men have held unpeer'd. Chapman; Sonnet to the Earl of Salisbury. Read Homer once and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Duke of Buckingham; Essay on Poetry. I can no more think Homer blind Than those who say the Sun hath... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...Retaliation. Postscript. ' Them last four lines are attributed to Rochester. » See Suckling, p««e 257. Head Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. £if(ty on foet>i_ THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 Seiten
...Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. —Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, 1649-1720. Essay on Poetry. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. — Sheffield. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend,... | |
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