Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-03-19


. Ion, 10 Scott Or Byron. Where 4 ,ss'' ~.
: 'nsl can De compared with the psaI re' pocr
va; with the Song Of Solomon a aa'ms q b
prophecies Of lsaiah2 Where i ~ with M
eleglac ode 70 DO compared WIN = !, There Id
! DayIdupon the death ofSaul ana ! sne scny j
" me Lamentations ofJeremiahl Wyhualhap, d
Iclea,or modern poetry, isthere u as,e u a.
ms! in thoughts from the yjs rasssge Iik1
InlgnI' when deep sleep falle,K On 'as Of lid
h game upon me and trembling, wbich men, eaI
my bones to shake. Then d snr;, Si made ali
fore my face: the hair Of nv ALL passed be1
i stood still, but could not discera STOOD %
Ilnereoif An image was before mioo 'ne fora
acre was silence. And | heard u; yves
ing, ohall mortal man be more ust ,h S'sc say.
shal' q man be more pure than H. 'n y Godl
nenold ne putteth no trust in Ii. maSer.--
ana his angels he chargeih with e., SERVANTS,
much less in them that dwell IN honssy How
whose foundation Is in the dust and y = clay,
crushed before the moth" Men M TnO are
lelt me power Of poetry, which ,be "o nave
marked the .'deep working passion g 'y X nave
and observed the elevation Of MIN. pante !"
combined image with image. in loNn as he
ilon, nave thought that they dscoyye,ssdia "a
Indebtedness OF these writer's to the Oo .su lhs
me ola testament. But how much m pO.uy q
lime is Isaiah than Milton How mn "Jlo sub
enkndlng than Dante is David! Ho ar' moe
more picturesque than Homer i So," " much
JOB! Like the rapid, glowing arg,n o.UnOa OF
. rSuI' me poetic parts Of the Bible NAV ,V us
.ead thousand times, and vet have a., - 20
feshness and glow ofthe first perusaI WIN VI 'lis
n the compass Of human language i ,h %nefe,
paragraph which, for holiness md :, s saafe q
metaphor, delicacy and majesty of ,hoasy, o'
.fongIn o. invention, elegance and refnemssn n9
quals the passage in which "God answers p,'Vn n5
~ o. the whlrlwlndm What merely hum aUo
Imagination, IN the natural progress Of SinnIn
iscourse, and apparently without an s stEs's'
yer thus went down to the "fouodat;on 81 ocv "
rth"-stood at"the doors Of The ocs,O ~ ,no
.S. h; Inc place where the day-spring from
hlgh takes hold ofthe uttermost paris Of I' the
lrlh entered into 'sthe treasures If H.
low and the hail"--traced the bath or ,ho
under-bolt-and, penetrating the retired
lambers OF nature, demanded, "Hath the rain
lathers or who hath begoiten the drops ofthe
Z" And how bold It's flights, how inexpre,.
very striking and beautiful its antithesis,
men from the warm and sweet Pleades il
aaders TO the sterner Orion, and, in its rand
urse, hears the ''young lions crying unto God
lack OF meat;" seeslhe war horse paving
'he valley; describes the eagle on the crag q
rock-and in allthat is vast and minute,
eadu'l and beautiful, discovers and proclaims
Siofy OF linn who is excellent in counse
: wonderful IN working" The style OF He.
wv poetry is every where forcible and fgu.
we beyond example. The book Of Job
Was not alone in this sententious. sniri,ed
q energetic form and manner. Il prevails
loughout the poetic parts Of the scriptures
mat they stand confessedly the most emf.
% examples to be found OF the truIy subIim a
beautliul.-Philadelphia Post.