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" 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 need1. "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Page 469
by Alexander Pope - 1824
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A Manual of Classical Bibliography: Comprising a Copious Detail of ..., Volume 1

Joseph William Moss - 1837 - 564 pages
...Odyssey. 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 books else appear so mean, BO poor : " Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, " And Homer will be all the books you...
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A Manual of Classical Bibliography: Comprising a Copious Detail of ..., Volume 1

Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 654 pages
...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 books else appear so meaii, so poor : " Verse Trill seem prose, but still persist to read, " And Homer will be all the books...
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Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of William B. Lighton: (Minister of the ...

William Beebey Lighton - 1838 - 262 pages
...hills, pointed the Sinner's eye ! With holy faith and prayer, Read God's Word once, and you can rend no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will sppm prose; but still persist to read. And God's Word will be all the books you need.' Never lay it...
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Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of William B. Lighton: (Minister of the ...

William Beebey Lighton - 1838 - 262 pages
...holy faith and prayer, Read God's Word once, and you can rend no more; For all bonks else apppar BO mean, so poor; Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read. And God-s Word will be all the books you need.' Never lay it aside because thou hast read it over and over,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Homer once, nnd you can read no more : For nil books else appear so шелп, ьо ролг. Verso l where I lie. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. . VITAL spark of heave book» you need." That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 588 pages
...their voice is not heard.' Yet I cannot coincide with the extravagant lines of Buckingham : 1 Road Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else will DC so mean, so poor, Verne will seem prose ; but still keep on to read, And Homer wilt be all...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...Testament, and what examples of each ? 4. What general view is given of the construction of Hebrew poetry ? Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor. Verse shall seem prose ; but still persist ta read, And Homer will be all the books you need." This is the...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...Head Homer once, and you can read no mort!, Ь'Г all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse irill seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill ; ! At...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...should undertake the author to whom he has given (in hia excellent Essay] so complete a praise 6 : Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. 8 In former editions it followed, " as I wish for the sake of the world, he had prevented me in the...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! ' ear, And draw her home with music. Ja. I'm never merry when I hear sweet mnsic. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill ; As something...
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