 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
 | 1860 - 345 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 - 431 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 - 167 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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1862 - 333 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."... | |
 | 1863
...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 - 152 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 - 152 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 - 480 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
...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 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... | |
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