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" 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 211
1726 - 312 pages
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The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796

Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...susceptible reader: 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....whether it is not for the Benefit of Mankind that they arc lost. They were filled with such bewitching Tenderness and Rapture, that it might have been dangerous...
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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness

Catherine Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...mutilated Poets of Antiquity, there is none whose Fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho ... 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 a bewitching Tenderness and Rapture, that it might have been dangerous...
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The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall

Terry Castle - Education - 2003 - 1150 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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Weer siddert in mij de liefde die het lichaam sloopt: Sapphô van Lésbos ...

Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...it's 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....character that is given of her works, whether it is not tor the benent of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and...
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Rediscovering Hellenism: The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination

G. W. Clarke - History - 1989 - 310 pages
...pulse forgot to play; I fainted, sunk, and dy'ed away, Joseph Addison was none the less able to say: '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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