...with Johnson's life,) hondersponders it pretty well; but even he must yield the palm. Read Hawkins once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, go poor; Johnson's a dunce ; but still persist to read, And Hawk ins will be all the books you need...

...For all books else appear so moan, so poar, "Verse will sot in 1'rcsc ; but still pcrsiil to rcaii, " And Homer will be all the books you need." That the...one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard B> say, whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example....

...should undertake ibe author to whom be has given (in bis excellent Essay) so complete a praise : * Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all...need.' That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favonr me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his...

...I should undertake the anthor to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise: * Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all...books else appear so mean, so poor. Verse will seem proae : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need/ That the Earl of Halifax...

...the Jinest 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...

...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...

...should undertake the author, to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise : " , I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arche*, with several broken arche " Ver«e will seem Prose; but still persist to read, " And Homer will be all the books you need." That...

...when he soon afterwards published the Iliad, he thus acknowledged in the preface his obligations : "The Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is Jiard to say, whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example."...

...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...

...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...