 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 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,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 454 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 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,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 pages
... MILLEDU1CIA: A THOUSAND PLEASANT THINGS. torn fata info What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid hi among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. UKN-BURIAL, chap. 5. NEW... | |
 | 1858 - 746 pages
...Browne, who treating, in 1 658, of the sepulchral urns then recently discovered at Norfolk, wrote : — " 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 ;... | |
 | 1897 - 370 pages
...in Europe a gradual transition from the one stage of culture to the other ? It has been said that " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture " ; and though the questions now proposed may come under the same category, and must await the discovery... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...melancholy, and to fulfil old prophecies 5 rather than be the authors of new. 2. FROM THE HYDRIOTAPHIA.6 What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,7 are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries8 entered the famous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pages
...force ol' his style. The conclusion of this singular and unparallelled rjerformance is as follows : ': What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself ar.iong women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...melancholy, and to fulfil old prophecies5 rather than be the authors of new. 2. FROM THE HYDRIOTAPHIA.6 What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,7 are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries8 entered the famous... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 pages
...dallied with the invincible locks of this greater than Samson ! But we can not. What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture; but Shakespeare's mistress is. Gone like a wind that blew A thousand years ago. " I fear," says Mr.... | |
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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. 
