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. Saint Anne's Hill: A Poem - Página 29de Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 38 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 páginas
...of Buckingham, so much extolled by our Author: " On diroit que pour plaire, instruit par la nature, Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 páginas
...of Buckingham, so much extolled by our Author : " On diroit quo pour plaire, instruit par la nature, Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 312 páginas
...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...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.' That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favonr me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 304 páginas
...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 was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 páginas
...I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise :* Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to * In the former editions it was, " tlie finest praise... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 páginas
...author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise :* Read Homer once, and yon can read no more; For all books else appear so mean,...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to * In the former editions it was, " the finest praise... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...Read Homer once, and you can read no " more; " For all books else appear so mean, so poor, " Ver«e added to those that were entire, made up the number about nn hundred. As I was counting That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say, whether the... | |
| 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem pi ose: bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just ;' That the earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether the... | |
| 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... | |
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