"Sapphic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tissimisque versibus, ex intimoque Latio petitis, stropbarum Sopphicarum centuria lectori ob oculos proponens, "a song embracing almost the whole of the Christian religion, or placing before the eyes of the reader in a hundred Sapphic stanzas, the marrow, or rather a compend of evangelical doctrine, in the most polished and mellifluent verses and in language taken from that of the Augustan age." (Poet. Scot. Musa. Sacrae, p. 198, praefaetio, vol. vi., ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... phase of erotic pathology. 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 ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... girl who (if the truth be truly told) Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul'd; For since the doings of the Dindymus-dame, By himself storied, she hath read, a flame Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned. 15 I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd, Damsel: for truly sung in sweetest lays Was ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... could do to show that he was welcome was to make crackers. Cooking is a sensual, grovelling utterance of feeling, you think? Yet, considering the drift of most women's lives, one fancies that as pure and deep love syllables itself every day in beefsteaks as once in Sapphic odes. It is a natural expression for our sex, too, somehow. Your wife may keep step with you in keen sympathy, in brain and soul; but if she does not know whether you like muffins or toast best for breakfast, her love is not the kind for this world, nor ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various |
