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Sapphick
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sapphick
English
Adjective
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en 1728 John Hughes The Preſent State of the Republick of Letters I http://books.google.com/books?id=YA3hAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=PA422 422 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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