Lectures On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews volume 1
Lectures On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews volume 1
Robert Lowth
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Hence sudden exclamations, frequent interrogations, apostrophes even to inanimate objects : for, to those who are violently agitated them- selves, the universal nature of things seems under a necessity of being affected with simi- lar emotions. Every impulse of the mind, however, has not only a peculiar style and expression, but a certain tone of voice, and a certain gesture of the body adapted to it : some, indeed, not satisfied with that expres- sion which language affords, have added to it ^...0 OF THE PARABOLIC AND LecIt. 4. it dancing and song ; and as we know there existed in the first ages a very strict con- nexion between these arts and that of poetry, we may possibly be indebted to them for the accurately admeasured verses and feet, to the end that the modulation of the language might accord with the music of the voice and the motion of the body. Poetry, in this its rude origin and com- mencement, being derived from nature, was in time improved by art, and applied to the purposes of utility and delight.
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