The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry: By J.G. Herder. Translated from the German, Volumes 1-2E. Smith, 1833 - Hebrew poetry, Biblical |
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... creations of its poetry become present to us with such stirring effect . The language abounds in roots of this char- acter , and our commentators , who rather go too deep , than too superficially , have shown enough of them . They never ...
... creations of its poetry become present to us with such stirring effect . The language abounds in roots of this char- acter , and our commentators , who rather go too deep , than too superficially , have shown enough of them . They never ...
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... creation of the world . Earliest views of nature . First feeling and conception of the Great Spirit , as a powerful being . Whether this feeling was a slavish fear , or brutal stupidity . Probable origin of ideas of the terrible in the ...
... creation of the world . Earliest views of nature . First feeling and conception of the Great Spirit , as a powerful being . Whether this feeling was a slavish fear , or brutal stupidity . Probable origin of ideas of the terrible in the ...
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... creation ? From the dark moving pictures of night to the magnificent uprising of the sun , with whom all beings in air and water , in the ocean and upon the earth seem to awake into being , the whole has passed before us . Is it ...
... creation ? From the dark moving pictures of night to the magnificent uprising of the sun , with whom all beings in air and water , in the ocean and upon the earth seem to awake into being , the whole has passed before us . Is it ...
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... creation are to be divided into the labours of six . But why waste our time with such discussions ? Not only the first brief history of the creation , but all the Hebrew songs in praise of it , nay the very names of those glorious ...
... creation are to be divided into the labours of six . But why waste our time with such discussions ? Not only the first brief history of the creation , but all the Hebrew songs in praise of it , nay the very names of those glorious ...
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... creation , is to them but a form of power , a vast ocean of intellectual energies , in whose depti s they are lost . Do you not recollect an example of this in Hebrew poetry ? A. You allude to my favorite psalm ; it shall now be also my ...
... creation , is to them but a form of power , a vast ocean of intellectual energies , in whose depti s they are lost . Do you not recollect an example of this in Hebrew poetry ? A. You allude to my favorite psalm ; it shall now be also my ...
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Page 230 - The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas : and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place...
Page 252 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Page 216 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 228 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 146 - Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Page 300 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to...
Page 234 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched...
Page 223 - HEARKEN to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, And to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah that bare you: For I called him alone, And blessed him, and increased him.
Page 230 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come Who is this King of glory?
Page 235 - Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.