| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 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.... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...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 - Christian ethics - 1862 - 552 pages
...although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead,t and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries... | |
| John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1862 - 410 pages
...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...beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these assuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit... | |
| Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...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... | |
| John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 428 pages
...Yet, wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and snake but one blot with infants What :song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these assuaries entered 1 From the Religio Medici. the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes... | |
| John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 444 pages
...beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these assuaries entered i From the Religio Medici. the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes...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 —... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...Romans themsrhes, or Britons Romanised, which observed the Roman customs. * * * What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept *vith princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 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 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 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 Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, I might, with Sir Thomas Browne, F have hazarded a " wide solution." * My companion saw my embarrassment,... | |
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