 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 pages
...men who have, done most honour to the name of poet ; that his grace the duke of Buckingham was nut displeased I should undertake the author to whom he...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 the books you need.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, A:id universal shouts attend their name ! Read Honier once, and you can read no more, For all books else...Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Honier will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...the greiitest poet in the work! ci.u'.d \u>v ^w\ u\\o • " Read GOD'S Word once, and you can resd.no more : For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, Arid GOD'S Word will be all the books you need." In short, MY COUNTRYMEN, the Bible abounds with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...complete a JN.M -с 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 the books yon need. That the cnrl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...I should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent essay) so complete a praise: v 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 the books you пссч!.... | |
 | 1813 - 350 pages
...encouragers ? Among these it is a particular pleasure to me to find, that my highest obligations arc to such who have done most honour to the name of poet:...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 the books you need.'... | |
 | William Beloe - 1814 - 472 pages
...the Turnebus Homer, in the Cracherode Collection, are these lines : Read Homer once, and you can rtad no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor...to read ; And Homer will be all the books you need. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GR^ECUM. Argenlorati apud Wolfium Cephalceum, Ann» 1524. • IT is remarkable of... | |
 | Richard Walker James Porson - 1815 - 524 pages
...with Johnson's life,) hondersponders it pretty well; but even he must yield the palm. Read Hawkins once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, go poor; Johnson's a dunce ; but still persist to read, And Hawk ins will be all the books you need... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...name of poet: that his grace the Dnke of Buckingham was not displeased I should undertake the anthor to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete...books else appear so mean, so poor. Verse will seem proae : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need/ That the Earl of Halifax... | |
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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. 
