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C( Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid^to blame." Poff,
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Art * I . —Select Psalms in Verse , with Critical Remarks by Bishop Lowth and others , illustrative of the Beauties of Sacred Poetry * London , Printed for Hatchard , 1811 . Small 8 vo . pp . 288 . Poetical devotion more
frequent-~ ] y pleases than Dr . Samuel Johnson was willing to admit : and his reasoning against it , is founded on verbal definitions , rather than on any real discordancy in the two ideas . It must , at the same time .
be acknowledged , that there exists a considerable diversity of opinion , as to the merit of several compositions which claim to be devotional poems . Nor , perhaps , can we so well account for this variety of sen . tiofent as by referirig it , for the
rnost part , to the difference and * tafK ? force of our early associations . Many of the habits of our child . "lidod and yoflffh , exerCise a swfey , * iiriperceived by ourselves , over our J&fdgiraehts no less than over our manners . Hence , probably , ari-* ses the attachment of men to
certain poetical productions , which have little or nothing to recomtnend them , on the score of intrinsic excellence . This fact , we
eonreive , best expliaihs Mr * . Addison ' s predilection ^ for tWfe old ballad oi Chevy Chase , and the ze&l with which Bp . HtfrdJ has vindicated the unnatural Chorus of thie
Grecian stage . There are poems , however ^ and ?
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those , too , devotional , which give general satisfaction : such are the psalms of David , from which the anonymous editor of the volume before us , has made a selection whirch , we think , must gratify readers in whom elegance of taste and a spirit of piety are united . We propose to accompany him through .
his Preface , his Biographical Notices , and his Extracts from his favourite poets and critics . It may be necessary to premise that as his selection is obviously intended for private use , and not for social worship , our remarks upon it will have a constant view to this
distinction . Being convinced that a very large proportion of the Psalms have never yet had justice done to the beauties of their poetry , by any of their numerous translators , he desisted from the task , which he
had undertaken , of exhibiting a complete metrical version of this book . He has therefore only selected sqch as he thought most worthy of the public eye ;—many of them well known and justly admired , some taken from our older poets , and a few from MSS in the
British Museum . From Lowth's Lectures on Sacred Poetry he professes to ha . ve made frequent quotations ; Tbjp regrets that Dr . Geddes did not live to finish his translation of the psalms ; and he adds some account of the MSS wtiich hijroself
has u $ ed , and offers critical observations whicfy display the deliciapy and correctness of his judgment . There follows an historical sk ^ tck
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C ( Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid ^ to blame . " Poff ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/39/
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