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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 - Pagina 213
1726 - 312 pagina’s
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The Works of Joseph Addison Complete in Three Volumes Embracing ..., Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 pagina’s
...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...
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Notes and Queries

1866 - 618 pagina’s
...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...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pagina’s
...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...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagina’s
...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...
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Illustrated History of Ancient Literature, Oriental and Classical

John Duncan Quackenbos - 1878 - 438 pagina’s
...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...
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Illustrated History of Ancient Literature: Oriental and Classical

John Duncan Quackenbos - 1879 - 446 pagina’s
...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...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's ...

Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pagina’s
...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...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...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...
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Sappho and Phaon: A Lyrical Drama

Marian Osborne - 1926 - 78 pagina’s
...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...
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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition, Volume 10

Lawrence Lipking - 1988 - 338 pagina’s
...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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