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" Alcseus, the famous lyric poet, who had for some time been passionately in love with Sappho, arrived at the promontory of Leucate that very evening, in order to take the leap upon her account; but hearing that Sappho had been there before him, and that... "
The Spectator - Page 253
1726 - 312 pages
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Breach of Promise: Its History and Social Considerations : to which are ...

Charles J. MacColla - Breach of promise - 1879 - 130 pages
...Sappho, arrived at the promontory of Leucate that evening in order to take the leap upon her account, hearing that Sappho had been there before him, and that her body could be nowhere found, he very generously lamented her fall, and is said to have written his I25th Ode upon...
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Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the ...

William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 600 pages
...attempted that dangerous leap. . . . Alcaeus, the famous lyric poet, who had been some time passionately in love with Sappho, arrived at the promontory of...but hearing that Sappho had been there before him, ami that her body could be nowhere found — he very generously lamented her fall, and is said to have...
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Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the ...

William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 602 pages
...promontory of Ixuicatu that very evening in order to tiike the leap upon her account ; but Ь-.n m..- that Sappho had been there before him, and that her body could be nowhere found — he very generously lamented her fall, and is said lo have written his hundred, nnd...
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Familiar Allusions: a Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information

William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1882 - 608 pages
...poet, who had been some time passionately in love with Sappho, arrived at the promontory of Leueatu that very evening in order to take the leap upon her...hearing that Sappho had been there before him, and that ber body could be nowhere found — he very generouuly lamented her fall, and is said to have written...
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The Spectator: no. 170-251; Sept. 14, 1711-Dec. 18, 1711

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...a doubt among the Lesbians. Alcaeus, the famous lyric poet, who had for some time been passionately in love with Sappho, arrived at the promontory of...been there before him, and that her body could be nowhere found, he very generously lamented her fall, and is said to have written his hundred and twenty-fifth...
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