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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 the books you need.
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 the books you need.
Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- Sheffield, Duke Of Buckinghamshire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote918 · printed citation: SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: Essay on Poetry
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