 | 1879 - 612 דפים
...found fault with. ' Head 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 bo all the Books you need.' That Homer will be read more than ever for the marvellous battle-pieces... | |
 | 1891 - 700 דפים
...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 Duke of Buckingham's tribute to the Greek bard. III. SUMMARY OF LESSON. Argonautic... | |
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 דפים
...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." HONO'RIUS. An emperor of the Western Empire of Rome, who succeeded his father, Theodosius the Great.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 דפים
...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 of Buckingham, Essay on Puelry. HOMEOPATHY. Wounds by the wider wounds are heal'd,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 דפים
...Windsor. Act II. Sc. 1. Head 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. g. SHEFFIELD— JEs-su ij on Poetry. Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.... | |
 | Homer - 1883 - 524 דפים
...complete a praise : *' 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...' That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favor me : of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 דפים
...key of knowledge. 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. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. Our... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 דפים
...of Buckingham:— " Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all works else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." Pope himself, in far more elegant verse, commends the masterpieces of Homer and Virgil to the student... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 דפים
...ne'er saw.1 IKd. 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. Ibid, 1 Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 דפים
...epic, he says : " 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." This brief recapitulation will make clearer the relation of Pope's poem, the " Essay on Criticism,"... | |
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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 need. 
