 | 1893 - 390 halaman
...is written in the heroic couplet, and seems to have suggested Pope's " Essay on Criticism." M. . " 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... | |
 | 1908 - 582 halaman
...right-hand helper. Their two children bear good old Athenian names — Andromache and Agamemnon. 1 Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean and poor; Verse will seem prose; and still persist to read, And Homer will be all... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 halaman
...amaz'd we find So much above the rest of Human Kind ! Nature's whole Strength united ! endless Fame, r 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... | |
 | 1895 - 768 halaman
...was dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Denham, Progress of Learning, 41. Read 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 halaman
...Vos exemplaria Graeca Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna." Cf. too Sheffield, Essay on Poetry : " 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 halaman
...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 books else appear so mean, so poor, Yerse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 halaman
...is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. q. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 26. , mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 halaman
...The Raven. " Rank is a great beautifier." BULWER LYTTON. Lady of Lyons (Melnotte), Act II., Sc. I. " 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... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 halaman
...after reading that book," said a man who had been perusing Homer, " men seemed to be ten feet high." " Read 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... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1900 - 238 halaman
...giving Homer the palm of "loftiness of thought." One of the old poets thus alludes to his verse:— " 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... | |
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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. 
