| Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 דפים
...calculation as to the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me what songs 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."1 My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1883 - 432 דפים
...Yet, wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietors of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism—not... | |
| 1883 - 760 דפים
...baffled for the moment in an attempt to identify the particular '• Unjust Judge " here stigmatized. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." (Hydriotiiphia, cap. v. 1658.) Tiberius might ask them of the grammarians, and some twentieth-century... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 602 דפים
...reader, at length, shuts him up, with the book. " What song the Syrens sang," says Sir Thomas Browne, " or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ;" — but it would puzzle Sir Thomas, backed by Achilles and all the Syrens in Heathendom, to say,... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 דפים
...lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.5 Ibid. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. Ibid. 1 Rich with the spoils of time. — Gray, Eltgy, St. 13. 2 The course of nature is the art of... | |
| Albert Plympton Southwick - 1884 - 244 דפים
...educational technics are undiscussed problems, — is the heartfelt wish of the writer. INTEODUCTORY. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture," • — URN-BURIAL, chap. 5. " The contents of his book seemed to he as heterogeneous as those of the... | |
| 1884 - 938 דפים
...protest directed against those only who are honest enough to speak the truth ? " What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." But the Bohemia of the woods and fields is still almost 3. terra incognita to us, and we have as little... | |
| Wendy Lesser - 1998 - 292 דפים
...central passion on the part of the searcher.) The "Rue Morgue" epigraph is taken from Sir Thomas Browne: "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." A recent murder story that transformed... | |
| Marvin Kaye - 1995 - 532 דפים
...Technical Notes on the Mechanics of Makeup with Some Observations on the Maintenance of Dressing Rooms What song the Syrens sang or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women — or what tools Sherlock employed in fashioning disguises — although puzzling questions, are not... | |
| Amy Gilman Srebnick - 1995 - 242 דפים
...the Rue Morgue," with a curious epigram from Sir Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century prose writer. What song the syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although pulling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.40 Borrowed from Browne's own meditation... | |
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