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 - Página 63por Homer - 1853 - 664 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...subscribers, aad the most distinguished patrons and ornaments of learning as my chief encouragera ? relio ved by a draught of cold water, but afterwards...traitor, will from his surviving associates •oon " Ver«e will seem Prose; but still persist to read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." That... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 páginas
...tlie finest praise he ever received;" and the two last lines here quoted from Buckingham stood thus : Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. But Buckingham was for ever altering and revising his Essay. It concluded with these lines : Must above... | |
| Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 558 páginas
...At the end of this copy of the Turnebus Homer, " in the Cracherode Collection, are these lines : " Read Homer once, and you can read no more, " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." Anecdotes, vip 105-6. See Dibdin's Introd. vip 391-2; and Brunet, t. ii. p. 126. PARIS. 4to. 1562 et... | |
| David Simpson - 1825 - 398 páginas
...verse, without losing much of their -majesty and pathos," •'Read God's Word once, and you can read n» more: For all books else appear so mean, so poor,...Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, And God's Word will be all the books you need." In short, my Countrymen, the Bible abounds with a vast... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...Buckingham was not displeased'! should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Sssay) es the fatal w pi ose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need ;' That the earl of Halifax... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1828 - 74 páginas
...Mortal, poMlo In nun tuilu Qunl sj •«•!»»- II nulru, o qiml dolor lo Mruygn. NOTES. NOTE I. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need. " Essay on Poetry, by the DUKE of BUCKINGHAM. NOTE II. " Sure fate of ALL, beneath whose rising ray... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 66 páginas
...REMOVED, HERE FOX ENJOYED HIS EVENING HOUR, IN CONVERSE WITH THE FRIENDS HE LOVED: ***" NOTES. NOTE I. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; " For all...read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." Essay on Poetry, by the Duke of Buckingham. NOTE II. " Sure fate of ALL, beneath whose rising ray "... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 páginas
...Odyssey; even though, for that reason, we should not go so far as to agree entirely with the author : ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...read, And Homer will be all the books you need*.' " " I must thank you," said Mr. Hartley to Mr. Paulett, " for your seasonable evidence in support of... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 páginas
...Odyssey; even though, for that reason, we should not go so far as to agree entirely with the author : ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...else appear so mean, so poor : Verse will seem prose : bat still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need*.' " " I must thank you," said... | |
| William Beebey Lighton - 1836 - 270 páginas
...God, The everlasting hills, pointed the Sinner's eye ! With holy faith and prayer, Read God's Word once, and you can read no more; For all books else...Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And God's Word will be all the books you need.' Never lay it aside because thou hast read it over and over,... | |
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