 | 1705 - 620 páginas
...Mind, And change his vain Defigns, And could no fitter Method find, 1 Then fending him thefe Lines: Seven -wealthy Towns contend for Homer Dead, Through which the Living Homer heggdhis Bread. A Tanegyrick upon Gates. OF all the Grain our Nation yields In Orchard, Gardens, or... | |
 | William Massey - 1761 - 318 páginas
...fuppofed to have been born at Smyrna in that Couniry. But according to the vulgar Verfe, Sev'n Cities now contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begg'd his ' Bread. That Homer was blind (efpecially in the latter Part of his Life) is agreed on all Hands ; but we have... | |
 | Paul Whitehead, Edward Thompson - 1777 - 280 páginas
...illiberality of mind confined to any age or country ; — for, as in earlier times " Seven cities did contend for HOMER* dead^ " Through which the living HOMER begg'd his bread, fo with us more enlightened Chriftians,. DRVDEN, OTWAY> BUTLER, GAY, LLOYD, and others, ftarved :-—... | |
 | 1802 - 448 páginas
...Orbis de patria certat, Homere, tua. On which circumstance this neat epigram is founded : Seii'n famous towns contend for Homer dead, 'Through 'which the living Homer begg"d his bread, '* In the year 1488," says Mr. Roscoe, vol a, p. 71 of the Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, " Demetrius... | |
 | 1807 - 218 páginas
...Death took me without any warning, I was well at niglit, and dead at nine in the morning. THE FATE OF POETRY. SEVEN wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begg'd his broad. EPITAPH, ON AN IRISH CHAIRMAN. WEEP, Irish lads, all true and fair men; Here rests the leader... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 526 páginas
...herald bore. Pope's Odyssey, Book vm. When we reflect on the following epigram : t " Seven rival states contend for Homer dead, " Through which the living Homer begg'd his bread," we cannot help thinking that the foregoing lines were intended as a rebuke to the unfeeling inattention... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...hard thou lov'st to dnve, II heard thy anxious coachman say, I It cost thee more in whips than nay. A Cure for Poetry. SEVEN wealthy towns contend for..., dead, Through which the living Homer begg'd his 1 bread ! On some Snow which welled on a Lady'tBrtatt. THE envious snow comes down in haste To prove... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 360 páginas
...islands. (L.) Smyrna claimed the honour of Homer's birth, but this was disputed by six other cities ; Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begg'd his bread. But Homer's was not a singular fate : He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone, might be inscribed... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain), John Adolphus - 1820 - 902 páginas
...soldiers. This reminded him of the treatment of the great bard of antiquity, of whom it was said— " Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Or, to use the expressive words of an elegant modern poet — " The great have still... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1822 - 410 páginas
...soldiers. This reminded him of the treatment of the great bard of antiquity, of whom it was said — " Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Or, to use the expressive words of an elegant modern poet — • • ' .'.ui, "... | |
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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. 
