 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - 1898 - 384 páginas
...do them honor. The old couplet, concerning the greatest of all the poets, reads : — Seven cities contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. It is a great thing, as well as a good thing, for a man to be able to recognize the prophets, teachers... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 páginas
...became famous, his birth-place could not be ascertained, so that it was said, — " Seven famous towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Yet he had a name in his day ; and, little guessing in what vast measures his wish would be answered,... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - 1900 - 380 páginas
...birthplace of Homer, but Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, and Athens dispute the palm with her. " Seven cities now contend for Homer dead Through which the living Homer begged his bread." The Homeric hymn to the Delian Apollo, once ascribed to Homer himself, says, in the fine translation... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1900 - 690 páginas
...his contemporaries were at a loss to account for his greatness. 'Twas ever thus — " Seven cities contend for Homer, dead ; Through which the. living Homer begged his bread." The towering grandeur of George Washington was not the result of circumstances especially fortuitous.... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...pen is mightier than the sword. — BULWEE LTTTOX : Eichelien, act ii. tc. 2. s Seven wealtby towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. ANONYMOU8. Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty snch monopoly of Fame. THOMAS... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1903 - 636 páginas
...roofe to shrowd his head." Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels, Thomas Heywood. " Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Anon. 26. olim : ' long ago.' Page 108 I. Cimbricas res: 'the affair with the Cimbri." These people... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1903 - 510 páginas
...well-known epigram, alluding to the uncertainty of the fact of his birthplace, says, " Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." These seven were Smyrna, Scio, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Argos, and Athens. Modern scholars have doubted... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 páginas
...and a well-known epigram alluding to the uncertainty of the fact of his birthplace says Seven cities contend for Homer dead Through which the living Homer begged his bread An older version is Seven cities warred for Homer being dead Who living had no roof to shroud his head... | |
 | 1904 - 228 páginas
...shall single out, and to whose name the " Test of Ages " shall inscribe one word : " Poet." Yes, — " Seven cities now contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." His sweet song descends as honey through the ages, his plaintive melody conies down the richer for... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 páginas
...d«ad ; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. — Hierarchic of Angells. Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. — Ascribed to Thomas Seward. SCIENTIFIC SPECIALS. THE WONDERS OF RADIUM. BY CLEVELAND MOFEETT. By... | |
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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. 
