| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Vtrs« is mind with the use and employment thereof. [Hooka and Skips Compared.]^ If the inven Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill ; As something... | |
| Homer - 1849 - 582 páginas
...undertake the / author to whom he has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise : > " Bead Homer once, and you can read no more ; • For all...read, *^ And Homer will be all the books you need :" ^^ That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is ' J hard to say whether... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...kind ! Nature's whole strength unit«! ! endless fame, And universal shouts attend their name ! Read s Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd this wondrous piece of skill; As something... | |
| 1854 - 424 páginas
...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...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... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 páginas
...: 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 you need." This is the language of a professed friend of the Puritan reformation and faith. The Bible itself is... | |
| 1855 - 824 páginas
...¿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 books...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... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...There 's no such thing in nature, and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books...to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 páginas
...has given (in his excellent Essay) so complete a praise : '• 1,'i-ini Homer once, and you can rend an, and consult the fates : For still distress'd I rove That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the... | |
| Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1862 - 186 páginas
...and distinguished English nobleman carried his admiration of one of them so far as to exclaim: " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books...read, And Homer will be all the books you need."* The classics have been tried for centuries ; their value and utility have often been denied, but they have... | |
| 1862 - 412 páginas
...distinguished English nobleman carried his admiration of one of them so far as to exclaim : " Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books...persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."f The classics have been tried for centuries; their value and utility have been often denied,... | |
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