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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. "
A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and ... - Page 173
by Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 509 pages
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The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous ..., Volume 2

John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
...overcharged praise to say, Road 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 spirit of curiosity has, however, prompted some enquirers toexamine the articles of this faith,...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 41

John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...complete a praise. ' Head 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 he all the Books you need.' That the earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...can read no more ; " For all Books else appear so mean, so poor, " Verse wrtl seem Prose : but stilI persist to 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 hard to say whether the advancement...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more, l''or 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. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still Like Indians view'd this wond'rous piece el skill , As something...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...attend their name ! Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books elite appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, vicw'd this wondrous piece of ikill ; As something...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...and decorum ! " 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 books you need." The Bible abounds with a vast variety of matter, a confused...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...complete a praise: v 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 the books you ορρχ!. That the earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...complete a JN.M -ρ 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 the books yon need. That the cnrl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me, of whom it is hard to say whether...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 10

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...attend their name ! Read Honier 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 Honier will be all the books you need. Had Bossu never writ, the world had still, Like Indians, view'd...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 1

1813 - 352 pages
...complete a praise : ' Read Homer once, ami 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.' That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the...
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