Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw

A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.[279:3]

Essay on Poetry.

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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.

Essay on Poetry.

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