Here happy Horace tuned th' Ausonian lyre To sweeter sounds, and tempered Pindar's fire; Pleased with Alcaeus' manly rage t' infuse The softer spirit of the Sapphic Muse.

Blank odes have been known in this country about as long as English sapphics and dactylics; and both have been considered, we believe, as a species of monsters, or exotics, that were not very likely to propagate, or thrive, in so unpropitious a climate.

The melancholy fate of his English sapphics, we believe, is but too generally known; and we can scarcely predict a more favourable issue to the present experiment.

By Mary Lamb 345 A Lady's Sapphic.

By Mary Lamb (?) 356 An English Sapphic.

M.L. A correspondence on English sapphics was carried on in The Champion for some weeks at this time, various efforts being printed.

The poets" singing the deeds of the contested day in strains neither Doric nor Sapphic, but in such rhythm and measure as Aristotle has overlooked in the compilation of his Poetic Rules; and to such music as might raise the shade of Handel from its "cerements."

8.An other form of verse, common to the Greeks and Romans, which has sometimes been imitatedor, rather, which some writers have attempted to imitatein English, is the line or stanza called Sapphic, from the inventress, Sappho, a Greek poetess.

The Sapphic verse, according to Fabricius, Smetius, and all good authorities, has eleven syllables, making "five feetthe first a trochee, the second a spondee, the third a dactyl, and the fourth and fifth trochees."

The Sapphic stanza, or what is sometimes so called, consists of three Sapphic lines and an Adonian, or Adonic,this last being a short line composed of "a dactyl and a spondee.

The Sapphic stanza, or what is sometimes so called, consists of three Sapphic lines and an Adonian, or Adonic,this last being a short line composed of "a dactyl and a spondee.

Hence few are the English Sapphics, if there be any, which abide by the foregoing formule of quantities and feet.

Without considerable care in the reading, the hearer will not suppose the composition to be any thing but prose: "THE WIDOW."(IN "SAPPHICS.")

Among the lyric poems of Dr. Watts, is one, entitled, "THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; an Ode attempted in English Sapphic."

"These lines," says Humphrey, who had cited the first four, "are good English Sapphics, and contain the essential traits of the original as nearly as the two languages, Greek and English, correspond to each other.

But as our language is not favourable to the use of the spondee and moloss, the moloss is seldom or never used in our English Sapphics; but, instead of which, some other trissyllable foot is used.

12.In "the Works of George Canning," a small book published in 1829, there is a poetical dialogue of nine stanzas, entitled, "The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder," said to be "a burlesque on Mr. Southey's Sapphics."

the humorous poems of Thomas Green Fessenden, published under the sobriquet of Dr. Caustic, or "Christopher Caustic, M. D.," may be seen an other comical example of Sapphics, which extends to eleven stanzas.

Sapphics few; scansion of; "The Widow," of SOUTHEY, scanned Eng.

on, cited Sapphics, burlesque, examples of Save, saving, as denoting exception, class and construc.

Or perhaps he was, like Blomfield and Monk, a "Greek Play Bishop," who had annotated Aeschylus or composed a Sapphic Ode on a Royal marriage.

Normal sexual appetite is as natural a passion as the hunger for food; it is simply a hunger to perpetuate the species, and without it the world would soon come to an end; but Sapphic passion is a disease which luckily cannot become epidemic because it cannot perpetuate itself, but must always remain a freak.[302] ANACREON AND OTHERS

While Aristeo is following Euridice, Orfeo enters upon the scene with a Latin ode in Sapphic metre in honour of Cardinal Gonzaga.

That the substitution of the chorus for the Sapphic ode is an improvement from the poetic point of view will hardly be denied, yet this improvement has been attained at the cost of some dramatic sacrifice.

" "Worse luck to her if she invented Sapphics," added Herbert.