 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pàgines
...no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Ibid. WRead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Ibid. 8r.' HENRY ALDRICH. 1647-1710. B-'; If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pàgines
...stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured. SHAKSI'EARE. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else ap|>car so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the... | |
 | 1891 - 700 pàgines
...he was buried. His memory was always preserved by his countrymen and 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... | |
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 pàgines
...Homer the palm for M loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse :— " Bead Homer once, 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."... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pàgines
...dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progren of Learning, 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... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pàgines
...Act' IV. Sc. 2. We burn daylight;— here, read, read. /. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 1. Head e g. SHEFFIELD— JEs-su ij on Poetry. Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pàgines
...Act IV. So. 2. We burn daylight;— here, read, read. /. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act П. i>c. 1. Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will seem prase; but still persist to read, And Homer will bo all the books you need. g. SHEFFIELD— Essay on... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 pàgines
...draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw." And finally, in speaking of the epic, he says : " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...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,"... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.1 IKd. Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...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.... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pàgines
...granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Reading, the key of knowledge. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...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... | |
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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. 
