 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...critics who were conversant with her works when they were entire. One may see by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without...conceits, and turns of wit, with which many of our 1 Between 610-580 before Christ. Temperat Archllochl musam pede mascnla Sappho, ^Kuliis fldlbas qnerentem... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...critics who were convcrsaut with her work« when they were entire. One may see by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without...of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected. Her «oui seems to have been made up of love and poetry. She felt the passion in all it* warmth, and described... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...conversant with her works when they were entire. One may see by what is left of them, that she fol lowed nature in all her thoughts, without descending to...conceits, and turns of wit, with which many of our i Between 610-580 before Christ. Temperat Archilochi musam pede mascula Sappho, JEoliis fidibus querentem... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...critics who were conversant with her works when they were entire. One may see by what is left of them that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without...its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...critics who were conversant with her works when they were entire. One may see by what is left of them , and gradually decay with him. One who lived before...pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of Vulcan,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...befreit. Gottingen, 1816, 8vo.— G. I modern lyrics are so miserably infected. Her soul seems to Lave been made up of love and poetry ; she felt the passion...its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the Tenth Muse : and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...critics who were conversant with her works when they were entire. One may see, by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without...its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan,... | |
 | Henry Theophilus Finck - Love - 1899 - 888 pages
...of the passion of love." Long before him Addison had written in the Spectator (No. 223) that Sappho "felt the passion in all its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms." Theodore Watts wrote : " Xever before these songs were sung, and never since, did the human soul, in... | |
 | Ishbel Gordon Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair - Child labor - 1900 - 264 pages
...antiquity," writes Addison, " there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. . . . Her soul seems to have been made up of love and poetry. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse." From Sappho downward is a far and somewhat empty cry.... | |
 | 1900 - 238 pages
...antiquity," writes Addison, " there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. . . . Her soul seems to have been made up of love and poetry. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse." From Sappho downward is a far and somewhat empty cry.... | |
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One may see by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without descending to those little points, conceits, and turns of wit, with which many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected. Her soul seems to have been made... 
