Meaning of Sapphick | Babel Free

Examples

“The Sapphick meaſure is indeed very muſical, and what Horace ſeems beſt to hace practiſed ; but methinks it is too ſoft, and fit only to be employed on love and pleaſant eaſy ſubjects : it ſeems too much confined, like the uſual meaſure of our ſongs, and the lofty ſenſe of ſome of his Odes is above it.”

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