 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 - Page 408by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole ftrength united ! endlefs fame, And univerfal fhouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem profe ; but ftill perfift to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole ftrength united ! endlefs fun?, And univcrfal Ihouts, attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books elfc appear ib mean, fo poor, Verfe will feetn prole ; but Itill pcrfift to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole ftrength united ! endlefs fame, And univcrfal ftiputs, attend their name J Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books clfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feesn profe ; but ftill perfift to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...11 more ; « For all books elfc appear fo mean, and poor. " Verfe will fcem prole : but ftillperfift to read, " And Homer will be all the books you need.'* That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of tha polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...elfe appear fo mean, and poor. " Veife will feem profe : but dill perQfl. to read, *' And. Homer wijl be all the books you need." That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 416 pages
...read no more ; For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Profe : but ftill perfift to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...more ; For all Books elfc appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Profe : but it ill perfift to readf And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, " Verle will fcem Profc ; but (till pcrlift to read, " And Homer wi:l be all the books you need." That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay, whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...no more ; " For alt books elfe appear fo mean and poor, " Vetfe will feeni Profe : but ftill perfift to read* " And Homer will be all the Books you need.'* That the earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to ay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...no more ; " For all books elfe appear fo mean and poor, " Vetfe will feem Profe : but ftill perfift to read, " And Homer will be all the Books you need.'' That the carl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to ay whether the advancement... | |
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