 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...There's no such thing in nature, and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. 11,1j. Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. ibid. NATHANIEL LEE. 1650-1692. 'HP HEN he will talk— good gods, how he will talk ! -1- Alexander... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pages
...Homer onoe, and you ran read 710 more, For all hooks else appear so mean, so jxior. Verse will seom prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. WILLIAM WALSH. Born 1603. Died 1709. WRITTEN IN A LADY'S TABLE-BOOK. With what strange raptures would... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1872 - 360 pages
...1843, what follows : TheDuks of Buckingham thus eulrgizes the prince of Epia Read Homer once, and yon can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, so poor. Verse shall seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." This is the... | |
 | Trojan war - 1874 - 408 pages
...Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy." CJ GLOUCESTER & BRISTOL. GLOUCESTER, 1874. INTRODUCTION. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need." BUCKINGHAM. THE Primitive Histories of all Nations were handed down from father to son by rhapsodists... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Ibid. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all hooks else appear so mean, so poor ; Verse will seem prose...but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the hooks you need. Ibid. HENRY ALDRICH. 1647-1710. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Ibid. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Kid. HENRY ALDRICH. 1647-1710. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured. SHAKSPEARE. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. SHEFFIELD : Essay on Poetry. How many a rustic Milton has pass'd by, Stifling the speechless longings... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...which Pope said contained the finest praise of Homer which had ever been given to that poet : Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books yon need. WILLIAM WALSH. Bom 1G63. Died 1709. WRITTEN IN A LADY'S TABLE-BOOK. With what strange raptures... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...human-kind ! Nature's whole strength united 1 endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! conjoined, submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver...skies, From some aspiring mountain's crown, How dearly MISCELLANEOUS .POEMS. A Hymn to my Redeemer. • GEORGE SANDYS, the accomplished traveller, translatât... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. WOKDSWORTH, Guilt and Sorrow. Homer. — Read HOMER once, and you can read no more, For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. SHEFFIELD, Duke of Buckingham. — Seven cities warr'd for HOMER being dead ; Who living had no roofe... | |
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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. 
