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" O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away. "
Longinus on the sublime; construed literally and word for word; with a free ... - Page 27
by Dionysius Cassius Longinus - 1873
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The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture

Robin Sowerby - Ancient Greece - 1995 - 236 pages
...tumults in my breast; For while I gazed, in transport tossed, My breath was gone, my voice was lost. My bosom glowed; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame; 74 O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung, My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were...
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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...Transport tost, My Breath was gone, my Voice was lost. My Bosom glow'd; the subtle Flame Ran quick thro' all my vital Frame; O'er my dim Eyes a Darkness hung; My Ears with hollow Murmurs rung. In dewy Damps my Limbs were chill'd; My Blood with gentle Horrors thrill'd; My feeble Pulse forgot...
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X-factor: Tales Outside the Closet : Essays

Danton Remoto - Gays - 1997 - 228 pages
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Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writings

Ian McCormick - Social Science - 2004 - 273 pages
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Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays ...

Charles Panati - Psychology - 1998 - 546 pages
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Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission

Ellen Greene - Fiction - 1996 - 276 pages
...Transport tost, My Breath was gone, my Voice was lost; My Bosom glow'd; the subtle Flame Ran quick thro' all my vital Frame; O'er my dim Eyes a Darkness hung; My Ears with hollow Murmurs rung: In dewy Damps my Limbs were chill'd; My Blood with gentle Horrours thrill'd; My feeble Pulse forgot...
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Victorian Sappho

Yopie Prins - History - 1999 - 298 pages
...Transport tost, My Breath was gone, my Voice was lost; My Bosom glow'd; the subtle Flame Ran quick thro' all my vital Frame; O'er my dim Eyes a Darkness hung; My Ears with hollow Murmurs rung: In dewy Damps my Limbs were chill'd; My Blood with gentle Horrours thrill'd; My feeble Pulse forgot...
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The Sappho Companion

Margaret Reynolds - Lesbos Island (Greece) - 2000 - 438 pages
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The Elements of Rhetoric (1878)

James De Mille - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 598 pages
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