Lectures On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews volume 2
Lectures On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews volume 2
Robert Lowth
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7 See Jos. Scaliger, Conjectanea in Varronem de Ling. Lat. P. 76. Edit. R. Steph. mans, 4 Lect. 22. ELEGY. 127 mans, of engaging mercenary mourners to weep at their funerals. This office generally fell to the lot of the women, either because it was supposed more congenial to the gene- ral imbecility of the female mind, or because, from the flexibility and softness of their na- ture, and from their tender and plaintive tone of voice, they were supposed more ca- pable of working upon the affectio...ns. After the custom was once established, we find no scarcity of these professional mourners, well accomplished in all the discipline of lament- ation and woe, and with tears always at command for a reasonable stipend. As in all other arts, so in this, perfection con- sisted in the exact imitation of nature. The funereal dirges were therefore composed in general upon the model of those complaints which flow naturally and spontaneously from the afflicted heart: the sentences were abrupt, mournful, pathetic, simple, and unembel- lished ; on one account, indeed, more ela- borate and artificial, because they consisted of verse, and were chanted to music 8 .
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