Sapho

If such a study of the _femme collante_, the mistress who cannot be shaken off -- or rather of the man whom she ruins, for it is Gaussin, not Sapho, that is the main subject of Daudet's acute analysis -- was to be written at all, it had to be written with a resolute art such as Daudet applied to it.

The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868

Did this strange young woman not realize that it was impossible to discuss beings like "Sapho" with one's father in the room?

A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

But then, Edna had never lived in Huntington, not even before she began to find books like "Sapho" and "Mademoiselle de Maupin," secretly sold in paper covers throughout Illinois.

Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

Among the operatic works which have made Gounod's name famous throughout the musical world are to be mentioned: "Sapho" (1851), "La nonne sanglante" (1854), "Le médecin malgré lui" (1858), "La reine de Saba"

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

"Sapho" and "Mademoiselle de Maupin," secretly sold in paper covers throughout Illinois.

Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910

In "Sapho" or "Zaza" she speaks the language of the senses, no more; and her acting reminds you of all that you may possibly have forgotten of how the senses speak when they speak through an ignorant woman in love.

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

Scepticism is no longer possible: here, in "Sapho," is a woman who flagellates herself before her lover as the penitent flagellates himself before God.

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

In "Sapho" she is the everyday "Venus toute entière à sa proie attachée," and she has all the brutality and all the clinging warmth of the flesh; vice, if you will, but serious vice, vice plus passion.

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

And if one thinks of Réjane's "Sapho," the difference is hardly less, though of another kind.

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

Will "Madame Bovary" stay a sister's fall, or "Sapho" repel an eligible young man?

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895