 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 sidor
...conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection. * * What song the syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. \Vhat time the persons of these ossuaries entered Uie famous nations of the dead, and slept with prince?... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 sidor
...cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity, content to have so far been, as to have a title to a future being, although he had lived here but in a...assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,f are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous... | |
 | 1833 - 564 sidor
...a question which it would require the ingenuity of a Sir Thomas Brown to solve, according to whom " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself amongst women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." This anonymous emperor is... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 sidor
...a question which it would require the ingenuity of a Sir Thomas Brown to solve, according to whom " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself amongst women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." This anonymous emperor is... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 sidor
...xaOagwrarai. yi corpus relinqueatium anioue purissimic. \ In the Psalm of Moses. lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. What song the Sirens- sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,*... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 sidor
...the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me, what song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, I might, with Sir Thomas Browne, have hazarded a " wide solution."* My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
 | 1835 - 432 sidor
...the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me, what song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, I might, with Sir Thomas Browne, have hazarded a "wide solution."* My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 sidor
...the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me, what song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, I might, with Sir Thomas Browne, have hazarded a " wide solution*." My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 sidor
...the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me what song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, 1 might, with Sir Thomas Browne, have hazarded a " wide solution."* My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
 | 1839 - 420 sidor
...Elf-shots, and in the common and natural belief that ancient tombs were the abode of supernatural beings.* "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. But who were the proprietors of the bones here interred, were a question beyond antiquarianism, not... | |
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. 
