Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Continual Reading of Homer
Letter from Cyril Jackson to Robert Peel (January 28, 1810), in Charles Stuart Parker, ed., Sir Robert Peel from his Private Papers, 2nd ed., Vol. I (London: John Murray, 1899), p. 28:
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Now remember what I say. Give the last high finish to all that you now possess by the continual reading of Homer. Let no day pass without your having him in your hands. Elevate your own mind by the continual meditation of the vastness of his comprehension and the unerring accuracy of all his conceptions. If you will but read him four or five times over every year, in half a dozen years you will know him by heart, and he well deserves it.
