 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sidor
...Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise ; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built ; 1 Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Anon. Denham. — Dehher. l6S Denham continued.] Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sidor
...Th' assembled souls of all that men held wise. Condibert. Book ii. Canto v. St. 37. 1 Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Ascribed to Thomas Seward. 2 See Proverbial Expressions. 3 See Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare.... | |
 | Homer, William Lucas Collins - 1876 - 172 sidor
...rise in. after times, were the subject of an epigram whose pungency passed for truth — " Seven rival towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. " But the begging is not in the original lines at all, and a wandering minstrel was no dishonoured... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 sidor
...when living and honored by it when dead, is another illustration of the old lines — " Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, heads the catalogue of English inventors. We have already seen... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 sidor
...had no roofe to shrewd his head. T. HEYWOOD, The Hierarchic of the Blessed Angells — Seven wealthy towns contend for HOMER dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. — ANON. Honesty. — HONESTY is the best policy. — Don Quixote. The Nimmers. — HONBSTY is the... | |
 | 1878 - 294 sidor
...the language, but many obscure fragments, as for instance, this striking couplet : " Seven cities now contend for Homer dead. Through which the living Homer begged his bread ; " lines which he makes " anonymous" but which have been ascribed to Thomas Seward. The poetry of... | |
 | 1878 - 300 sidor
...be No other than Calliope. Anlipater of Sidon. Tr. JH Mericale. HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE. SEVEN cities now contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Anonymous. THE SEVEN CITIES. Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae, Orbis de patria... | |
 | 1891 - 700 sidor
...minds. Homer. Not a little of the story of his life is contained in the old epigram, " Seven cities contend for Homer, dead Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Seven cities did claim to be his birthplace [Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodos, Argos, Athens.]... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1881 - 364 sidor
...died nnd was buried. His birthplace is unknown, and, according to an old Givek epigram, " Seven rival towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Many learned writers have doubted whether Homer ever existed, and regard the two great poems ascribed... | |
 | 1882 - 514 sidor
...to that charter as foreshadowing the origin of Amherst. His exegesis of history is not surprising. " Seven famous towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Nor will we deny that all these goodly institutions of learning, which now make Hampshire county famous,... | |
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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. 
