Indexed in the public record
“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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Essay on Poetry.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6a5c6baba8a5fd9ad23b152f617e2530954925743272dfb4453e13fface620c0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”
Michael de Montaigne
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works,…”
James Russell Lowell
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the…”
Oliver Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.