Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BiblePoe & Hitchcock, 1863 - 368 страница |
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... epics by the hope that he might achieve something which posterity would not willingly let die - or how Scotland's plowman bard , as if smitten with a noble jealousy of other lands which had been immortalized in song , kindled his muse ...
... epics by the hope that he might achieve something which posterity would not willingly let die - or how Scotland's plowman bard , as if smitten with a noble jealousy of other lands which had been immortalized in song , kindled his muse ...
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... epic poets , both ancient and modern . Thus Homer compares the Grecians crowding to the council from their ships and tents to a swarm of bees among the vernal flowers . Virgil employs the same com- parison to set forth the innumerable ...
... epic poets , both ancient and modern . Thus Homer compares the Grecians crowding to the council from their ships and tents to a swarm of bees among the vernal flowers . Virgil employs the same com- parison to set forth the innumerable ...
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... Epic muse . Seeing that so many of the Biblical similitudes are taken from natural scenery and familiar life , in order to perceive their point and propriety the reader must have made himself acquainted with the social habits and ...
... Epic muse . Seeing that so many of the Biblical similitudes are taken from natural scenery and familiar life , in order to perceive their point and propriety the reader must have made himself acquainted with the social habits and ...
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W. Trail. men , and their hereditary aversion to agricultural pursuits . The epic or historical parts are marked by a graceful simplicity , almost more unadorned than those of Herodotus , and most true to nature ; a point on which the ...
W. Trail. men , and their hereditary aversion to agricultural pursuits . The epic or historical parts are marked by a graceful simplicity , almost more unadorned than those of Herodotus , and most true to nature ; a point on which the ...
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... epic and drama in the Hebrew poetry otherwise than as betraying the want of a just appreciation of its true character . An epic poem requires an heroic age sufficiently remote to enable the poet to found upon its tradi- tions , which by ...
... epic and drama in the Hebrew poetry otherwise than as betraying the want of a just appreciation of its true character . An epic poem requires an heroic age sufficiently remote to enable the poet to found upon its tradi- tions , which by ...
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Страница 115 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Страница 122 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings : For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.