 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...ages of the * orld, or forward into the deptlia of eternity. [OWirio».] ' What song the syrens sung, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling question*, are not beyond all conjecture. U'hat time the pel-sons of these ossuaries entered the famous... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...:'n it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden." THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Sir Thomas Browne. THE mental features... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...any calculation as to 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...habitations,either of Romans themselves, or Britons Romanised, which observed the Roman customs. * * * What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - American literature - 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...questions, are not beyond all conjecture ;" — but it would puzzle Sir Thomas, backed by Achilles and all the Syrens in Heathendom, to say, in nine cases... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...any calculation as to 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...habitations, either of Romans themselves, or Britons Romanised, which observed the Roman customs. * * * "What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...any calculation as to 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 the women, I might, with Sir Thomas Browne, have hazarded a " wide sola* fion."* My companion saw my... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 746 pages
...658, of the sepulchral urns then recently discovered at Norfolk, wrote : — " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes... | |
 | Chemistry - 1897 - 370 pages
...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 when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture " ; and though the questions now proposed may come under the same category, and must await the discovery... | |
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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. 
