 | Apollonios Rhodios - 1997 - 504 σελίδες
...without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy) I would give what I have." The boy's words, then and even today, struck an emotional... | |
 | Charles Knight
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1999 - 183 σελίδες
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 | Yi-fu Tuan - 2002 - 246 σελίδες
...sing the song of Orpheus to Argonauts, who were the first sailors." Then he interrupted himself and called to the boy: "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir," said the boy, "I would give what I have." A dangerous educational myth in America, convenient to adults... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...statement that was prompted by an interaction they had had with the boy rowing them on the Thames: " 'What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?' 'Sir, (said the boy,) I would give what I have' " (Life, 1, 458). 17 "Life of Dryden," Lives, I, 459. 18... | |
 | James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson - 2003 - 356 σελίδες
...without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy,) I would give what I have." Johnson was much pleased with his answer, and we gave him... | |
 | Anna Adams - 2003 - 216 σελίδες
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 | James Boswell - 2005 - 660 σελίδες
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 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 σελίδες
...without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy) I would give what I have." Johnson was much pleased with his answer, and we gave him... | |
 | James Boswell - 2006 - 660 σελίδες
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Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy,... 
