 | 1739 - 336 pages
...not for the Benefit of Mankind that they are loft. They were filled with fuch bewitching Tenderneis and Rapture, that it might have been dangerous to have given them a Reading. AN inconftant Lover, called Phaon, occafioned great Calamities to this poetical Lady, She fell defperately... | |
 | William Cooke - Classical biography - 1773 - 202 pages
...not for the benefit of mankind that they are loft. They are filled with fuch bewitching tendernefs and rapture, that it might have been dangerous to...this lady that fhe placed her love at laft upon an objeft infenfible and unworthy of it. So that all her deicriptions run upon the fide of difappointed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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* An inconstant lover, called Phaon, occasioned great calamities to this poetical lady. She fell desperately... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bibliographical literature - 1804 - 374 pages
...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 to have given them a reading." See Spectator, No. 223. As the subject of this paper was the Fragments of Sappho, Mr. Addison has judiciously... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bibliographical literature - 1804 - 374 pages
...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 to have given them a reading." See Spectator, No. 223. As the subject of this paper was the Fragments of Sappho, Mr. Addison has judiciously... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They are rilled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous to have given them a reading. An inconstant lover, called Phaon, occasioned great calamities to this poetical lady. She fell desperately... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...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." Voaius, in the third book of his Institutioness Pocticse, says, that none of the Greek poets excelled... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...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 to have given them a reading. An inconstant lover called Phaon, occasioned great calamities to this poetical lady. She fell desperately... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...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. , ', 'f An inconstant lover, called Phaon , occasioned great calamities to this poetical lady. She... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 334 pages
...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.' Vossius, in the third book of his Institutiones Poeticae, says, that none of the Greek poets excelled... | |
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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. 
