| Great Britain - 1804 - 492 páginas
...*' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; " For all books elfe appear fo mean and poor, " Vetfe will feem Profe : but ftill perfift to read, " And Homer will be all the Books you need.'' That the carl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to ay whether the advancement... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 páginas
...I mould undertake the author to whom hehas given (in his excellent EfTay) fo complete apraife. «' Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; " For all books elfe appear fo mear, and poor, " Verfe will feem Profe : but ftill perfift to read, " And Homer will... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 páginas
...bumajn kind I Nature's whole ftrength united ! widlefc fame, And univer&l (houts, attend their name! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books elle Hppear lo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem prole; but (till perlilt to read, And Homer will be all... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 páginas
...fhould undertake the Author to whom he has given (in his excellent EJfay} fo cornr plete a praife * : Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elie appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will fecm Profc : but Hill ptriilt to read, Ai>4 Homer will be... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 páginas
...fhould undertake the Author to whom he has given (in his excellent Effay') fo complete a praife * ; Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Profe : but dill pevfift to read, And Homer will be all... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 páginas
...mould undertake the Author to whom he has given (in his excelleijt Effay} fo com^ plete a praife*.; Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Vcrfe will feem Profe : but ftill perfift to read, And Homer will be... | |
| Homerus - 1807 - 568 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 Books else appear so mean, so poor, " Verse wrtl seem Prose : but stilI persist to read " And Homer will... | |
| William Beloe - 1807 - 464 páginas
...Odyssey. At the end of this copy of the Turnehus Homer, in the Cracherode Collection, are these lines ; 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 ; Homer will be all... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...humankind : Nature's whole strength united ,' endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elite appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 páginas
...displeased 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 books else appear so mean, and poor. Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
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