 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...read no more; For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will fe em Profe : lutjlill perftft to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Hallifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...read no more ; Far all Books elfe appear jo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Prcfe : butjlill perfijl to read. And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Hallifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is,hard t;o £y whether the advancement of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...read no more*, For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will fe em Proje : but Jill I perfift to read^ And Homer will be all the Books you need* That the Earl of Hallifax was one of. the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...read no more ; For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will Jeem Profe : but ßillferßß to read, And Homer 'will be all the Books you need, That the Earl of Hallifax was one of the firft to • favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...mare j For all Booh elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe wi/Jfeem Profe : but ftill perjvft to nad. And Homer 'will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Hallifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to lay whether the advancement of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...Books e!fe appear fa mean, fo poor, Verfe willfsem Prafe: but Jlill ferjift ta redd, And Homer will te all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...read no more ; For all Books elfe off ear fo mean, fo poor, Verje -Mill feem Profe : but jlill perjijl to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Halifax was one of the firft to fiivour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts i? more owing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...more ; " For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, «« Verfe will feem Profe; but ftill perfift to read, " And Homer will be all the Books you need." That the earl of Halifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arrs is more owing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...read no more ; For all Books elfe appear fo mean, fo poor, Verfe will feem Profs : but jiill perjift to read, And Homer 'will be all the Books you need. That the Earl of Hallifax was one of the firft to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fo me.in, fo poor, " Verle will feem Hrofe ; butftill perfift to rcail, " And Homer will be all tlie books you need." That the earl of Halifax was one of the firlt to favour me, of whom it is hard to fay whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing... | |
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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 need. 
