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regarded [ as ] an episode led to "b y the mention of the horse in the way of comparison , 1 g * The poet now returns to the race of migratory birds , noticed v . 13 . Most of the falcon tribe are of this description : they pass their spring * and summer in cold climates , and wing- their way towards warmer reg ions on the approach of winter . * The
flicrht of a strong" falcon , ' observes Dr . Shaw ' is Wonderfully swift . It is recorded , that a falcon belonging to a duke of Cleves flew out of Westphalia into Prusjiain one day ; and in the county of Norfolk , a hawk has made a flight at a woodcock , near thirty miles in an hour . * ZooL m . P . 134 .
In the former of these extracts the attentive reader will see on what slight coincidences Mr . Good is willing to erect the hypothesis that Moses was the author of this poem . Our annotator ' critical remarks are
characterized by a profusion of quotations . Almost every language is laid under contribution to his aid Persic and Arabic , Greek and Latin , French , Italian , Spanish , German , Swedish and Gaelic , But his extracts
are far from being" uniformly illustrations : the greater part of them , indeed , seem little calculated to throw light on . a poem of such remote antiquity and singular excellence as the book of Job . In not a few , errors of
the press occur : and , in reading the notes of Mr . G ., we frequently wonder that the style of an author who appears to be familiar with so many illustrious writers , ancient and modern , is not more pure and elegant .
This gentleman speaks ^ w ith approbation ( notes , pp . 18 , 19 , ) of the renderin g of Matt . v . 15 , " by a very learned Swede , Dr . Tingshadius , bishop of Sudermania . " " But if the wit . should lose its savour , how then
can we salt with it ? " " There can ta no doubt , adds Mr . G ., " that the Greek verb is employed impersonaHy . We shall not now discuss' this P ° wt : it may be cuiious , however , lo compare with the Swedish bishop ' s
translation , that of Cranmer ' s or the kreat Bible— " If the salt have lost Jhe saltnesse , what shall be seasoned therew ith ? " After all , the meaning * determined by Mark ix . 50 . As Mr . Good does not think it unbecomin g an aimotator upon Job to
It is au exceedingly heautiful transi-2 ° !} " She laugheth at the horse , &c . "Ha * t thou bestowed on the horse ? " &c .
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quote from Shakespear , we shall make no apology for correcting his text ( g 81 ) in the first line of the " well-known apostrophe of Macbeth , " where he gives the reading , " feeling- night !"
This is unintelligible . On consulting the glossary and the commentators , he will alter it to seeling ; a term in hawking . To seel , is " to run a silk through the eye-lids of a young hawk , and to draw them near together , in order to make the hawk bear a hood . "
In a citation from Aristophanes ( 215 ) we observe that jucsv is improperly substituted for pcJijv . Iren . 745 . Brurrck . Ox . 1810 . If Mr . Good ' s labours upon Job be estimated only by a reference to the translator ' s literary advantages , they will obtain a share of praise * He who
compares them with the assistance previously furnished for the illustration of this poem , and with the present state of biblical and scriptural criticism in England , but especially on the Continent , may perhaps be of opinion that we have devoted to the volume before us as much attention as it merits .
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RevierV . ' —Evanss Ponderer . 177
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Art . III . —The Ponderer , a Series of Essaysj Biographical , Literary , Moral and Critical . By the Rev . John Evans . 12 mo . pp . £ 16 ,
Longman and Co . 1812 * MR . EVANS , a Dissenting minister of Bristol , has already come before us [ v . 257-3 as the " Author of an Oration on the Tendency of the Doctrine of Philosophical
Necessity . "t Under a heavy title , he has here furnished a series of Essays , thirty-five in number , ( dedicated to the Rev . Dr . Estlin , who appears to have been his tutor , ) which shew him to be a general scholar , an ardent - ij juru A- ^— i ^ i r ., T _ -- —_ . i ~ i- aj . ' mi . ' ' "' tnr 111 -X . ' f Mr . Evans thus style * himself in th « Title-pagfe .
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Errata in the last ' Number . P . 110 , col . 1 , 1 . 22 from the top , for prosopoeia read prosopopoeia . P . 112 , col . 1 , 1 . 25 , from the top , for the note of interrogation after the words the grave ^ substitute a note of admiration . P . 113 , 2 nd . col ., 1 . 20 from the bottom , for renderings read rendering * .
P . 116 , col . 2 nd , I . 16 from the bottom , for s ^ envelissent read s ' ensevilissent .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/49/
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