This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...which proceeds from divine inspiration is not be-yond the province of criticism--Criticism will enable us to account for the origin of the art, as well as to form a just estimation of its dignity: -that the opinion of the divine origin of Poetry was common in Greece--This work purely critical; and consequently ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...which proceeds from divine inspiration is not be-yond the province of criticism--Criticism will enable us to account for the origin of the art, as well as to form a just estimation of its dignity: -that the opinion of the divine origin of Poetry was common in Greece--This work purely critical; and consequently theological disquisitions will be avoided--The general distribution of the subject into three parts; the nature of the verse, the style, and the arrangement, 21 THE FIRST PART. OF THE HEBREW METRE. LECTURE III. THE HEBREW POETRY IS METRICAL. The necessity of inquiring into the nature of the Hebrew Verse--The Hebrew Poetry proved to be metrical from the alphabetical poems, and from the equality and correspondence of the sentiments; also from the poetical diction--Some of the.most obvious properties of the verse--The rhythm and mode of.scanning totally lost; proved from facts--The poetical conformation of the sentences--The Greek and Latin Poetry materially different from the Hebrew, from the very nature of the languages--Hence a peculiar property in the prose versions of the Hebrew Poetry, and the attempts to exhibit this Poetry in the verse of other languages, 28 THE SECOND PART. OF THE PARABOLIC OR POETICAL STYLE OF THE HEBREWS. LECTURE IV. THE ORIGIN, USE, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARABOLIC, AND ALSO OF THE SENTENTIOUS STYLE. The Poetic Style of the Hebrews bears the general title of Parabolic--Its constituent principles are the sententious, the figurative, and the sublime--The source of the Parabolic Style, and its original use: among other nations; among the Hebrews--Certain examples of it preserved from the first ages in the writings of Moses: I. The sententious kind; its nature and effects, Page 37 LECTURE V. OF THE FIGURATIVE STYLE, AND ITS DI..
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