The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Unknown
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'smite in sunder, or wound, the heads;'
some word answering to the Latin 'conquassare'. v. 7. For 'therefore,' translate 'then shall he lift up his head again;' that is, as a man languid and sinking from thirst and fatigue after refreshment. N.B. I see no poetic discrepancy between vv. 1 and 5. PS. CXVIII. To be interpreted of Christ's church. PS. CXXVI. v. 5. 'As the rivers in the south.' Does this allude to the periodical rains? [1] As a transparency on some night of public rejoicing, seen by common day, with the lamps from within removed--even such would the Psalms be to me uninterpreted by the Gospel. O honored Mr. Hurwitz! Could I but make you feel what grandeur, what magnificence, what an everlasting significance |
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