 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.  The Iliad of Homer - Pàgina lxviiiper Homer - 1796 - 294 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pàgines
...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...appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Profe : but dill pevfift to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That * In the former editions it was,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pàgines
...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 all the Books you nee<|. That... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pàgines
...appear so mean, 'and poor. 'Verse will seem Prose: but still persist to read, • And Homer will he 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 of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 350 pàgines
...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, to poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pàgines
...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 Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard B> say, whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
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