 I do not know by the character that is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous to have given them a reading.  The Spectator - Page 2111726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...iU symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by PJutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame. I do not know by the character I hat is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...with the utmost assiduity : though Mr. Addison (in the Spectator, No. 223.) judiciously observes ; " I do not know, by the character that is given of her...it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...called by ancient authors the tenth muse; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcaii, who breathed out nothing but flame. I do not know...it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...symptoms. She is' called by antient authors, the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared lo Cacus, the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus nd Hazzard. William Brown, printer. lost. They are filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 330 pages
...relics with the utmost assiduity: though Mr. Addison (in the Spectator, No. 223) judiciously observes: ' I do not know, by the character that is given of her...it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...its svmptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...its. symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tenth muse; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
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