Solomon's Song: Translated And Explained, in Three Parts
The book Solomon's Song: Translated And Explained, in Three Parts was written by author Withington, Leonard, 1789-1885 Here you can read free online of Solomon's Song: Translated And Explained, in Three Parts book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Solomon's Song: Translated And Explained, in Three Parts a good or bad book?
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Good sooth ! there is a young and dainty maid I dearly love, a minstrel she by trade; What then ? Must I defer to pedant rule. And own that love transforms me to a fool ? Not I, so help me ! By the gods I swear, The nymph I love is fairest of the fair. Must I not love her then 1 Let the dull sot "Who made the law obey it, — I will not." No doubt the author here had the natural excess o.^ love in his mind, and yet he does not totally dis- approve ; he has only a half-smile of censure on his brow... at a sentiment which he regards as half wrong. In a word, I would be willing to pledge myself to go through the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Solomon's Song, — the most dramatic books in the Bible, — and to say, I AM AS ABLE TO PICK OUT THE SENTIMENT AS I AM TO UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTER. They botll shine with an interlocked and common light. As in painting, so in dramatic poetry, there are some THE MANUDUCTION. 159 things difficult, almost impossible, to be done. Thus, in painting, you are confined to the instant ; motion and succession must be dispensed with ; you cannot paint a depression in a landscape lower than the front ground of your picture ; it is very hard to distinguish between the rising and setting sun ; and he that selects the rainbow as his pattern must be content to follow at an awful distance the perfection of nature.
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