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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. "
The Iliad of Homer - Page 63
by Homer - 1853 - 664 pages
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...should undertake the author to whom he has given (in hia excellent Essay] so complete a praise 6 : Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. 8 In former editions it followed, " as I wish for the sake of the world, he had prevented me in the...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! ' ear, And draw her home with music. Ja. I'm never merry when I hear sweet mnsic. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill ; As something...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...human kind ! Niture's whole strength united ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! nd field ; Of Vtrs« will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...human kind ! Nature's whole strength unit«! ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! ambers Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill; As something...
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Absenteeism; or, The ladies' soirée a Brandiport, reported by a lover of home

Brandiport - 1849 - 164 pages
...work of Homer, the great Grecian bard, might be appropriately said of the Bible— " Read God's word 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 God's word " will be all the...
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Essays and Marginalia, Issue 28, Volume 2

Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...evacuation and abasement of corporal nature, to make man fearful of his lusts. AN ESSAY ON POETRY. " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all...else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose." Yes, such verse as your Grace's. HN Coleridge has well observed, that the same class of fastidious...
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The Ohio Journal of Education, Volume 3

Education - 1854 - 424 pages
...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...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need ; " we can at least say that "he stands, by prescription, alone and aloof, on Parnassus, where it is...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...for October, 184S, what follows : 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. Vene shall seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...kind ! Nature's whole strength united ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Head Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill; Аз...
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La Cruz, Volume 7

Mexico - 1855 - 824 pages
...Mas ¿á qué hacer vanos esfuerzos para enumerar las incontables bellezas de este libro de libros? "Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all...to read And Homer will be all the books you need." ' Por el estudio dt; éste y los demás clásicos, es por el que todos los hombres célebres por su...
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