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Letter "C" » Cities
"Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens–these
seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the
illustrious Homer.
[Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,
Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]"
Author: Anonymous
About: Cities
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hid."
Author: Bible
About: Cities
"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King."
Author: Bible
About: Cities
"A rose-red city half as old as Time."
Author: Dean John William Burgon
About: Cities
"I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Cities
"God made the country, and man made the town."
Author: William Cowper
About: Cities
"No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot."
Author: Lawrence George Durrell
About: Cities
"The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city."
Author: Euripides
About: Cities
"In the busy haunts of men."
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
About: Cities
"Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shroud his head."
Author: Thomas Heywood
About: Cities
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