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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. "
The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine - Page 91
1820
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection. * * What song the syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. \Vhat time the persons of these ossuaries entered Uie famous nations of the dead, and slept with prince?...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity, content to have so far been, as to have a title to a future being, although he had lived here but in a...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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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 7; Volume 12

1833 - 564 pages
...a question which it would require the ingenuity of a Sir Thomas Brown to solve, according to whom " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself amongst women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." This anonymous emperor is...
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 1; Volume 3

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 pages
...a question which it would require the ingenuity of a Sir Thomas Brown to solve, according to whom " what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself amongst women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." This anonymous emperor is...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 pages
...xaOagwrarai. yi corpus relinqueatium anioue purissimic. \ In the Psalm of Moses. lived here but in an hidden state 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,*...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 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,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 432 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,...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 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,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 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,...
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The Book of Bon-accord: Or, a Guide to the City of Aberdeen

1839 - 420 pages
...Elf-shots, and in the common and natural belief that ancient tombs were the abode of supernatural beings.* "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. But who were the proprietors of the bones here interred, were a question beyond antiquarianism, not...
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