The Poetry of the Pentateuch, Volume 1E. Churton, 1839 - Bible |
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... extremely ancient to an extremely modern one , much of the poetical beauty , where poetry exists , must be marred ; and there can be no question that in the splendour of its poetical adornments , our version , admirable and almost ...
... extremely ancient to an extremely modern one , much of the poetical beauty , where poetry exists , must be marred ; and there can be no question that in the splendour of its poetical adornments , our version , admirable and almost ...
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... extremely feeble if none other were commu- nicated- Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely , weary , wandering travellers , Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Nor light us ...
... extremely feeble if none other were commu- nicated- Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely , weary , wandering travellers , Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Nor light us ...
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... extremely abrupt , and this in those passages obstinately and indisputably prosaic . It is evident that a peculiar phraseology is indispensable to metre , as language must be accommodated to it ; it does not accommodate itself to ...
... extremely abrupt , and this in those passages obstinately and indisputably prosaic . It is evident that a peculiar phraseology is indispensable to metre , as language must be accommodated to it ; it does not accommodate itself to ...
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... extremely simple , that an in- verted order of the words , to any great extent , was not necessary for the purposes of poetry , though that it does exist is well known , and is a proof of its being metrical . 6 " But Dr. Jebb infers ...
... extremely simple , that an in- verted order of the words , to any great extent , was not necessary for the purposes of poetry , though that it does exist is well known , and is a proof of its being metrical . 6 " But Dr. Jebb infers ...
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... extremely complicated , so woven into a tissue of dependent parts and corresponding members , exhibiting such remote and almost microscopic affinities ; - he represents passages composed of many mem- bers , presenting such extreme ...
... extremely complicated , so woven into a tissue of dependent parts and corresponding members , exhibiting such remote and almost microscopic affinities ; - he represents passages composed of many mem- bers , presenting such extreme ...
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Adam Clarke admiration Almighty Amalek Amorites animal artificial authority Balaam Balak beauty benediction Bible Bishop Jebb Bishop Lowth blessing brethren Canaan chapter character Chemosh clause common composition conveyed couplet curse Deity descendants dignity distich divine doubt earth Edom elevated eloquent eminently employed enemies evidently exhibited expression father favour gradational hath heathen heaven Hebrew poetry hemistich Herder Heshbon holy inspired interpretation Israel Israelites Jehovah Judah Lamech land language latter likewise lion Lord means Mesopotamia metre metrical mind Moab Moabites Moses mountains nations natural nevertheless Nophah obscurity observed parallelism passage patriarch Pentateuch perfect Pethor phrase poem poet poetical portions posterity of Jacob Prælection prediction promised prophecy prophet prose Red Sea reference remarkable rendered sacred says Scripture sense signifies Sihon song sons soul sublime suppose thee thing thou thought tion translation tribe unto verse whole words writers
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Page 208 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Page 388 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Page 337 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 439 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 103 - God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine...
Page 243 - And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Page 304 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; and as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest...
Page 116 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Page 411 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 515 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.