| 1820 - 398 pages
...; although he had lived here but in a hidden state of lite, and as it were an abortion. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietors of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were... | |
| 1831 - 370 pages
...being, although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead,t and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries... | |
| Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 pages
...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 - 532 pages
...as long as three. lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead,f and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 pages
...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...these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead,f and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. 'But who were the proprietaries... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...the common and natural belief that ancient tombs were the abode of supernatural beings.* "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...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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