 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...whole strength united 1 endless fame And universal shouts attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. MISCELLANEOUS .POEMS. A Hymn to my Redeemer. • GEORGE SANDYS, the accomplished traveller, translatât... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...thousand tables pined and wanted food. WOKDSWORTH, Guilt and Sorrow. Homer. — Read HOMER once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so...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... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...books else appear to mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still peraist to read, And Homer mill be all the books you need :" That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is bard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...outcast quite abjured. SHAKSI'EARE. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else ap|>car so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still...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... | |
 | 1879 - 612 pages
...variation which will be diversely estimated, though hardly found fault with. ' Head Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so...prose : but still persist to read, And Homer -will bo all the Books you need.' That Homer will be read more than ever for the marvellous battle-pieces... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 700 pages
...handed down to all posterity. " Read Homer once and you can read no more For all books else, appear so poor ; Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read, And Homer will be all you need." Such is the Duke of Buckingham's tribute to the Greek bard. III. SUMMARY OF LESSON. Argonautic... | |
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 pages
...M loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse :— " Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean and poor ; Verse will seem prose ; bat still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progren of Learning, 41. Bead Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, so poor ; Verse may seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Sheffield, Duke... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...burn daylight; — here, read, read. /. 3feny Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 1. Head Homer once, and i/. BYRON -Don Juan. Canto I. St. 194. LOVE. LOVE....Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes g. SHEFFIELD— Essay on Poetry. Studious let me sit. And hold high converse with the mighty dead.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...burn daylight;— here, read, read. /. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act П. i>c. 1. Bead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will seem prase; but still persist to read, And Homer will bo all the books you need. g. SHEFFIELD— Essay on... | |
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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. 
