| 1897 - 370 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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.... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 стор.
...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.... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 стор.
...with the invincible locks of this greater than Samson ! But we can not. What song the sirens song, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ; but Shakespeare's mistress is. Gone like * wind that blew A thousand years ago. '• I fear," says... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 стор.
...can unwish itself, content to be nothing, or never to have been ; which was beyond the malecontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his...of life, and as it were an abortion. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,*... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 стор.
...more. Yet, though we will not hurt our digestion with the bitter husks of fruitless controversies, " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women," it is pleasant sometimes to muse over the deep sayings of the Masters — those " jewels five words... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 стор.
...any 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."1 1 Urn Biirial. My companion saw... | |
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