| Marvin Kaye - 1995 - 532 oldal
...Technical Notes on the Mechanics of Makeup with Some Observations on the Maintenance of Dressing Rooms What song the Syrens sang or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women — or what tools Sherlock employed in fashioning disguises — although puzzling questions, are not... | |
| Maria DiBattista, Lucy McDiarmid - 1996 - 270 oldal
...presented with a clue to its original nature in the story's gnomic epigraph from Sir Thomas Browne: "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." The epigraph is oddly soothing, since it suggests that even though the story will introduce us to mysteries... | |
| Philip J. Davis - 1997 - 316 oldal
...led Rothschild to write to me? And what were the consequences? Sir Thomas Browne wrote in Urn Burial: "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." 25 Mathematics as Literature: Prime Number... | |
| Roger Lass - 1997 - 452 oldal
...another animate most of what is discussed later in this book. 2 Written records: evidence and argument What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture. 2.1 Prologue (Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia,... | |
| Apollonios Rhodios - 1997 - 504 oldal
...(Suet. Tib. 70.3) and immortalized by Sir Thomas Browne's gloss on Suetonius in Urn Burial ("What songs the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture"). 887-91: Ap. is, as we have seen (1.367... | |
| James Joyce - 1998 - 1060 oldal
...what name Achilles . . . women: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), Hydriotaphia, Um-Burial (1658), ch. 5: 'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed, when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture'; post-Homeric elaborations of the legend... | |
| Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 oldal
...the wave function. 15. [Stapp 1993:68]. Bell's Thunderbolt (1 964) 513 1 6. "What songs the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, . though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." [Browne 1658] 17. [Herbert 1987:220].... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 oldal
...La Democratic pacifique, January 31, 1847, as "L'Assassinat de la rue Morgue," by Isabelle Meunier. THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. [£] What song the...mental features discoursed of as the analytical"' are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them Title: The Murders in the Rue... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 408 oldal
...Romances, 1 843 Tales, 1845 There are also three publications in French translations in 1846 and 1847. THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE' What song the Syrens...questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Sir Thomas Browne.2 The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible... | |
| Aubrey Burl - 2000 - 492 oldal
...significance was to their builders is a difficult problem but not one that has to remain unanswerable. 'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond of all conjecture,' decided Sir Thomas Browne.5" Nor are... | |
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