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. (John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby)

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.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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