| Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 páginas
...not be Content to know, — what was too much for thee! — VAUGHAN, HENRY, 1678, Thalia Rediviva. 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... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1902 - 384 páginas
...monster which the world ne'er saw' ? And all good Homerists will certainly endorse the following: ' 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's will be... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...human-kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! obert else appear so mean, so poor. Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...human-kirn! ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! Let not my pretty Susan mourn else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will lie... | |
| 1903 - 1272 páginas
...and moving ; Whom all times' wisest men have held unpeer'd. Chapman; Sonnet to the Earl of Salisbury. 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... | |
| Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 páginas
...Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. —Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, 1649-1720. Essay on Poetry. 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... | |
| John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 576 páginas
...poems, which, in the language of an English critic, remain unsurpassed in the poetry of the world: — 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 rend, And Homer will be all... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 páginas
...dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. 2186 ' Denham : Progress of Learning Read 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... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 páginas
...in the course of our reading. — J. LOCKE. Conduct of the Understanding. THE SUFFICIENCY OF HOMER 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... | |
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