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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.
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.
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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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Essay on Poetry.
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