 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
 | James Tyson - 1914 - 392 sivua
...Vergil in his rendering of the same story. Recall the lines of Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire: "Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." Tragedy received its intensest expression in the plays of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus, while... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 sivua
...lines: " Of all those arts in which the wise excell, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well." " Read Homer once and you can read no more, For all...to read And Homer will be all the books you need." A third, Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701), produced several good love songs. The Earl of Dorset (1638-1706),... | |
 | 1920 - 594 sivua
...keep in the best company. When once we taste the best, relish for the inferior is taken away. "Bead Homer once and you can read no more For all books else appear so mean and poor." With still greater force does this apply to the greatest book in all the world — the Bible.... | |
 | 1924 - 458 sivua
...is one of the Fame 75. Homer "The Father of Song" Flourished about 10th Century BC 26 endorsements. Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. — John Sheffield, 1682. "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," epic poems ascribed to a shadowy, blind Grecian... | |
 | John Adams Scott - 1925 - 204 sivua
...Buckinghamshire, and his Essay on Poetry; the sum of his conclusions is expressed in the famous verses: "Siead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Johnson wrote : " Dryden may properly be considered as the father of English criticism," and Sir Walter... | |
 | Abel Chapman - 1928 - 534 sivua
...If one may paraphrase the Poet, and for " Homer " read Nature : — " Read Nature once, and you need read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so...Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Nature will be all the books you need." — SHEFFIELD (Duke of Buckingham). To study these " colour-protected... | |
 | 1879 - 610 sivua
...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...read, And Homer will be all the Books you need.' That Homer will be read more than ever for the marvellous battle-pieces and councils of his ' Iliad,' and... | |
 | Ivory Frisbee - 2004 - 349 sivua
...giving Homer the palm of "loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse : " 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."... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - 1983 - 274 sivua
...change from unrealities to reality, from the impermanent to the permanent. CHAPTER X Greek Poetry. Homer Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM IN THE seventeenth century there had flourished, mainly in France, but also to a... | |
 | 1854 - 446 sivua
...actors, of those heroic ages. Considering all his excellences, if we can not say with another — " Read Homer once, and you can read no more— For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need ; " we can at least say that "he stands, by prescription, alone and aloof, on Parnassus, where it is... | |
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