 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 Iliad of Homer - Sivu 63tekijä(t) Homer - 1853 - 664 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1892 - 520 sivua
...liv'd was dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. DENHAN, frogress of Learning. Read 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... | |
 | William Wheeler - 1892 - 200 sivua
...difficulty. Essay 481, /. 688. See also DUTCH. Holy Laving1, Taylor's. 62-2. Homer. " Read Plainer once, and you can read no more ; \ For all books else appear so vie an, so poor, \ I rerse will seem Prose ; bitt still persist to , read, • A nd Homer will be all... | |
 | 1893 - 390 sivua
...is written in the heroic couplet, and seems to have suggested Pope's " Essay on Criticism." M. . " Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the book you need." — Sheffield's Essay on Poetry. « " Be Homet's works your study and delight, Read... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 sivua
...prosperity* courageous, in danger timid. Phtfd. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, ' For ail books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem...persist to read, / And Homer will be all the books yon need, fiitïkinghaw. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Л1- • of Common l* rayer. Read... | |
 | 1908 - 582 sivua
...right-hand helper. Their two children bear good old Athenian names — Andromache and Agamemnon. 1 Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean and poor; Verse will seem prose; and still persist to read, And Homer will be all the book you need."... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 sivua
...amaz'd we find So much above the rest of Human Kind ! Nature's whole Strength united ! endless Fame, r Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. BUCRINGHAMSHIRE: An Essay on Poetry to T Hail thou ! to whom we mortal Bards our Faith submit, Whom... | |
 | 1895 - 768 sivua
...was dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progress of Learning, 41. Read 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 sivua
...is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. q. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 26. , mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies...Fairies of the Caldon Low. St. 5. * ' * Or fairy r. JOHN SHEFFIELD (Duke of Buckinghamshire) — An Essay on Poetry. L. 323. He that runs may read.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 sivua
...stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured. SHAKSPEARE. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Yerse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. SHEFFIELD:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 sivua
...Vos exemplaria Graeca Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna." Cf. too Sheffield, Essay on Poetry : " 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.... | |
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