 | Homer - 1877 - 558 Seiten
...should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise : 41 Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear to mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still peraist to read, And Homer mill be all the books... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 Seiten
...no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Ibid. WRead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Ibid. 8r.' HENRY ALDRICH. 1647-1710. B-'; If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured. SHAKSI'EARE. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else ap|>car so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1891 - 700 Seiten
...he was buried. His memory was always preserved by his countrymen and handed down to all posterity. " Read Homer once and you can read no more For all books else, appear so poor ; Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, And Homer will be all you need." Such is the... | |
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...Homer the palm for M loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse :— " Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean and poor ; Verse will seem prose ; bat still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progren of Learning, 41. Bead 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... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 Seiten
...Act' IV. Sc. 2. We burn daylight;— here, read, read. /. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 1. Head e g. SHEFFIELD— JEs-su ij on Poetry. Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...Act IV. So. 2. We burn daylight;— here, read, read. /. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act П. i>c. 1. Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will seem prase; but still persist to read, And Homer will bo all the books you need. g. SHEFFIELD— Essay on... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.1 IKd. Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Ibid, 1 Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.... | |
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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 need1. 
