 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
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...endless fame, And universal shouts, attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, l''or ~ BZ z1J3 L [ J2 Mn e "z Q 1+ ( 7 4= Y ` I # C: }Z҂f- - A d F 7+Y> g s P # Had Bossu never writ, the world had still Like Indians view'd this wond'rous piece el skill , As something... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...— ivcu i endless ra . ....t-iMii shouts attend their name! Read Homer once, and you can read no me For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to re And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Mos.su never writ, the world had still, Like Indians,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...humankind : Nature's whole strength united ,' endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elite appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, A:id universal shouts attend their name ! Read Honier once, and you can read no more, For all books else...Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Honier will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...the greiitest poet in the work! ci.u'.d \u>v ^w\ u\\o • " Read GOD'S Word once, and you can resd.no more : For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, Arid GOD'S Word will be all the books you need." In short, MY COUNTRYMEN, the Bible abounds with a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...complete a praise: v 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 пссч!. That the earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...complete a JN.M -с 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 yon need. That the cnrl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...displeased I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent essay) so complete a praise: 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.... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise: ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, to poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.'... | |
 | William Beloe - Bibliographical literature - 1814 - 472 pages
...the Turnebus Homer, in the Cracherode Collection, are these lines : Read Homer once, and you can rtad no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor...to read ; And Homer will be all the books you need. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GR^ECUM. Argenlorati apud Wolfium Cephalceum, Ann» 1524. • IT is remarkable of... | |
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