...reader can pause at his pleasure. The duke of Buckingham thus eulogizes the prince of epic poets : — " 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...

...Vergil in his rendering of the same story. Recall the lines of Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire: "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...

...are common in the bookshops. Widely indeed have we departed from the counsel of him who bade us ' ' 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...

...lines: " Of all those arts in which the wise excell, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well." " 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...

...is one of the Fame 75. Homer "The Father of Song" Flourished about 10th Century BC 26 endorsements. 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...

...giving Homer the palm of "loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse : " 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 all...

...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 read, And Homer will be all...

...actors, of those heroic ages. Considering all his excellences, if we can not say with another — " 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...

...change from unrealities to reality, from the impermanent to the permanent. CHAPTER X Greek Poetry. 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...

...author of The Opium Eater imagined, that one day or another I might address an Athenian assembly. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear ao mean, BO poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read , And Homer will he...