 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 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... | |
 | 1851 - 794 pages
...Muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flames. 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 are filled with such 'bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...its symptoms. She is called by ancient authors the tent] muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan who breathed out nothing but flame. I do not know by the ch» racter that is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefi of mankind that they are lost... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 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... | |
 | 1854 - 630 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...called by ancient authors the Tenth Muse : and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of Vulean, who breathed out nothing but flame. I do not know...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 - 1856 - 628 pages
...symptoms. .She is called by ancient authors the Tenth Muse : and by Plutarch is compared to Cacusi, 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 The - 1857 - 780 pages
...symptom«. She i« called by ancient authors the tenth muse ; and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame....do not know by the character that is given of her work«, whether it i« not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are tilled with «uch... | |
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