 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.  Homer and His Influence - Page 139by John Adams Scott - 1925 - 169 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
...to heighten the beauty of the whole. In short it was not deemed an overcharged praise to say, Road Homer once, and you can read no more, , For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. The spirit of curiosity has, however, prompted some enquirers toexamine the articles of this faith,... | |
 | William Beloe - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 464 pages
...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...: Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read ; Homer will be all the books you need. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GREECE. Argentorati apitd JVolfium Cephalaum,... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...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 be all the books you need." That the earl... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...should undertake the author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise. ' Head 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 he all the Books you... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...inestimable volume, it would be used with the strictest propriety and decorum ! " Read God's word, once, and you can read no more ; For all books else...Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And God's word will be all the books you need." The Bible abounds with a vast variety of matter, a confused... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...endless fame, And universal shouts, attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, l''or ~ BZ z1J3 L [ J2 Mn e "z Q 1+ ( 7 4= Y ` I # C: }Z҂f- - A d F 7+Y> g s P # Had Bossu never writ, the world had still Like Indians view'd this wond'rous piece el skill , As something... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, vicw'd this wondrous piece of ikill ; As something... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...— ivcu i endless ra . ....t-iMii shouts attend their name! Read Homer once, and you can read no me For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to re And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Mos.su never writ, the world had still, Like Indians,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 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... | |
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