 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 - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...Plutarch is compared to Cacus the son of Vulcan, who wreathed out nothing but flame. I do not uiow 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1866 - 618 pages
...epigrams, &c., which are lost, and of which Addison, in Spectator, No. 223, remarks, — " I do not know whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost." (Nov. 15, 1711.) KR C, will there find, the " Hymn to Venus " translated The " Hymn to Venus... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...Muse : and by Plutarch is compared to Cacus, the son of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing but flame. 1 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1878 - 438 pages
...up. of love and poetry. She felt the passion in all its warmth and described it in all its symptoms. 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... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1879 - 446 pages
...up of love and poetry. She felt the passion in all its warmth and described it in all its symptoms. 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 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 weru filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 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. I do not know by the character thiit is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They... | |
 | Marian Osborne - Sappho - 1926 - 78 pages
...She felt passion in all its warmth and described it in all its symptoms. "I do not know", he goes on, "by the character that is given of her works "whether it is or is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are filled with such bewitching tenderness... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 338 pages
...lady. Sappho could be accepted in polite society, he assured his readers, though only just barely. "I do not know, by the Character that is given of...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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