 | Luna May Ennis - Music in art - 1903 - 350 pages
...of Sappho. . . . One may see by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts. Her soul seems to have been made up of love and poetry....its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors ' The Tenth Muse.' " She was the brilliant centre and inspiration... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz - Epic poetry - 1920 - 936 pages
...Horae Lyricae (1709). Addison, in No. 223 of the Spectator (Nov. 15, 1711; cf. No. 229), complains of those " little points, conceits, and turns of wit,...many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected." L. Welsted, Trans, of Longinus and Remarks on Eng. Poets (1712). Steele's references to the lyric are... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz - Epic poetry - 1920 - 936 pages
...Horae Lyricae (1709). Addison, in No. 223 of the Spectator (Nov. 15, 1711; cf. No. 229), complains of those " little points, conceits, and turns of wit, with which many of our modern lyrics arc so miserably infected." L. Welsted, Trans, of Longinus and Remarks on Eng. Poets (£712). Steele's... | |
 | Sappho, Edwin Marion Cox - Greek poetry - 1925 - 168 pages
...antiquity there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho," and he describes her as " not descending to those little points, conceits, and turns...many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected." He repeats the legend connecting her with Phaon, and gives a circumstantial repetition of the Leucadian... | |
 | Marian Osborne - Sappho - 1926 - 78 pages
...says "0 sweet soul how good you must have been when your remains are so delicious". Her soul, he says, seems to have been made up of love and poetry. She felt passion in all its warmth and described it in all its symptoms. "I do not know", he goes on, "by the... | |
 | Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...thoughts, without descending to these linie points, conceits, and turns of wit with which many ofour modern lyrics are so miserably infected. Her soul seems to have been made up of love and poetry: she feit the passion in all it's warmth, and described it in all it's symptoms. She is called by ancient... | |
 | G. W. Clarke - History - 1989 - 310 pages
...have been dangerous to give them a reading.' But he continued, 'One may see, by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without...little points, conceits, and turns of wit, with which so many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected.' Earlier in the same essay, Addison, without... | |
 | 1847 - 844 pages
...those of She followed nature ia all her thoughts, soul seems tu have been made up of love and роту. She felt the passion in all its warmth, and described it in all its symptoms." But it does not appear that these poets had any idea of poetry as a distinct art. It was all written... | |
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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... 
