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" What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,! "
Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia ... - Page 488
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1835
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Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D ...

Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...to the value of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of me what song the Siren 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 embarrass*...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...but his nativity. Content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being ; although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and, as it were, an abortion. Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial. CONSCIENCE. PAINT not the sepulchre of thyself, and strive not to beautify...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 426 pages
...but his nativity. Content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being ; although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and, as it were, an abortion. Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial. CONSCIENCE. PA1NT not the sepulchre of thyself, and strive not to beautify...
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An Outline Sketch of English Literature

Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...enigmas and riddles of the Trinity — with incarnation and resurrection;" and to start odd inquiries; "what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women;" or whether, after Lazarus was raised from the dead, " his heir might lawfully detain his inheritance."...
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...Content to have so farre been, as to have a Title to future being ; Although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion....Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzling Questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these Ossuaries entred the...
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Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects

John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - Authors, English - 1890 - 362 pages
...but his nativity ; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as...assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,f are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous...
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Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects

John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - Authors, English - 1890 - 334 pages
...but his nativity ; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as...assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,f are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).

James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...but his nativity ; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as...assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,15 are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous...
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 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...women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjeeture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: English Literature in Eight Chapters

Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...enigmas and riddles of the Trinity—with incarnation and resurrection ;" and to start odd inquiries: " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women ;" or whether, after Lazarus was raised from the dead, "his heir might lawfully detain his inheritance."...
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