| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...me not that I've essayed to please ye : Borne things herein -may not offend. — FLETCHER. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. IE fontibus eorum, judicio arbitrioque nostro, quantum quoc[ue modo videbitur,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 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,... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - 548 pages
...the origins of systems of culture — often with no more hope of success than of learning 'what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.' But nothing will stay men from such inquiries, and if the inquirer more often than not wanders from... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 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,... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1877 - 364 pages
...best but extremely vague upon this topic ; nevertheless — like the question of what song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women — the matter, though puzzling, is not beyond all conjecture. It is probable that the subscription... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...The conclusion of this singular and unparalleled performance is as follows : "What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up,... | |
| 1879 - 336 pages
...Romans themselves, or Britons Romanised, which observed the Roman customs. ******* What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...forward into the depths of eternity Oblivion. What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assnmed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,...and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...calculation as to the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me, what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, I might, with Sir Thnmat Browne, have hazarded a "wide sobtion."* • Urn Burial My companion saw my... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...calculation as to the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me what song the Syrens 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,... | |
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