 | 1842 - 700 halaman
...reader can pause at his pleasure. The duke of Buckingham thus eulogizes the prince of epic poets : — " 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... | |
 | James Tyson - 1914 - 392 halaman
...Vergil in his rendering of the same story. Recall the lines of Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire: "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... | |
 | 1914 - 540 halaman
...are common in the bookshops. Widely indeed have we departed from the counsel of him who bade us ' ' 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... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 halaman
...lines: " Of all those arts in which the wise excell, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well." " 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... | |
 | 1924 - 458 halaman
...is one of the Fame 75. Homer "The Father of Song" Flourished about 10th Century BC 26 endorsements. 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... | |
 | Ivory Frisbee - 2004 - 349 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... | |
 | 556 halaman
...poems, which, in the language of an English critic, remain unsurpassed in the poetry of the world : — 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... | |
 | 1854 - 446 halaman
...actors, of those heroic ages. Considering all his excellences, if we can not say with another — " 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... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - 1983 - 274 halaman
...change from unrealities to reality, from the impermanent to the permanent. CHAPTER X Greek Poetry. Homer 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... | |
 | 1842 - 782 halaman
...author of The Opium Eater imagined, that one day or another I might address an Athenian assembly. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear ao mean, BO poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read , And Homer will he... | |
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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. 
