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whieh they connected with their Scrips tupe $ * 4 h £ | r cpuntr ^ . . their recollections , their situation and their hopes . A large portion of the first book , is occupied by an abstract of the history of this people , from the calling of Abraham , down to the priesthood and the reign of John Hyreanus . Perhaps , to _ ^
too roa ^ y pages are devoted the abstract : however , it conies naturally enough troj ^ i the lips of Elisaraa , for the iuforination of Myron , and serves to fillip some of the first stages of the journey , which until it brought the pilgrims to tli $ Holy Land , was not likely to-be fruitful in events .
In the incidents and transactions which , suddenly and almost simultaneously , cast down Helon from the pinuacie of his bliss to the gulf of sorr ° v \( V the writer is extremely inartificial ThjB , circumstances that are desig $£ 4 to ip ^ epafe : us for the deeply
m ^ pjrn fuj catastrophe , follow mucji too . closj § Jy voia eaoli other : hence probability is violated , and the mind . of the reader unnecessarily shocked . It becomes evident that Strauss , having nearly exhausted his materials for descriptions of Jewish scenes , festivals ,
&c ,, hurries on his narrative . We caunot otherwise explain his unskilful structure of the last stages o ^ the plot : this is the only mannerhvwliieh we can account for his putting- au eud so abruptly to the lives of the chief ;
personages of his story ; he cannot or he vvilJ not do any more with themhis invention , or rather perhaps his assiduity , flags . Conveniently , no doubt , for himself , but much to the mortification of his readers , he brings before us homicide , calumniated
innocence , the Simoom , the plague , the tempest , in uninterrupted succession , and makes them the instruments of destroying both poetical and moral justice . So far are we from perceiving wfyy Helon and , Sulamith might not ha ^ e ? beep represented as passing togeJJier many years of domestic bliss ,
that we must charge their immature dentil upon at least a failure of our ttuthor ' s judgment . In the range of fictitious history , and notwithstanding tl ^ e lugbly-wrought picture of the wreck o ^ jthe vessel * we are scarcely acquainted yyith so unsatisfactory and revolting ja conclusion . jfimong the characters introtfucpd * that from which these volumes hkve
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their , Wife , « 5 ^ Wequte M ^ eap of W * , pqRPf ^ aW - ^^ Mh be consid ^ e ^ ajs tJ ^ a 4 \ tbp K ? J % ^ M personage ; - * \ m evgp % * $ c & * $$$% a sort of i ^ j ^ s ^ a ^ ivi ;^ &rqi % s himself—a portrait of his inteliQsQpp moraL and religious l * abU $ . , T ^ soil of Helon * apgt ^ rs ta b ^ tha ^ quT V ' of devotional aripur > an < t sj ^ slbility ; & £
mind full of the ^ 3 ^ a ^^^^ oi ^ fif that would cbaxactj&fizQ ^ i ^^ jd ^ A enlightened J ^ w soriitjaal ^ H ^ ton is the » ovb ^^|^^ iOT ^^ @ ;; whole narrative ; iS ^^ V ^ RClSMr conjugal , relative fnd patr ^ ptlc tfftik £ tion . His memory is riclily stbro ^ witB the passages of his country ' s even $ il
history : his imagination quickly ) iW ,. dies at the sight of her sacred eiaifices , and ceremonies , aad of Iier graricf au ( J consecrated ,, her beautiful and % jr | 1- \ vatipg scenery . Though K ^ ern ^ j ^ asmjsoipetimea mistea (| 3 his Ju ^ qi ^^' he manifests generalla soMdruMersT
y standing , and a just discernment Lof standing , and a just ^ sc ^ r ^ ejq pi men and things . We accompany ui | ij * with lively interest throughout his ^ pitgrimage : we sympathize in bis jqy § * and sorrows , and bitterly mourn over what we must , in every viewy , pronounce his untimely fate . So
partial . are we to the young pilgrim and prieg £ i , Jhat vye lqng to know rnQre , < pf the ihaul * , whose bvvn state ; of rmnd would conceive , and whose talents and studies enabled him to create , jthis Heyrp of the narrative .
Next , in ^ point of importance , ^ nd of just design and execution , though still at a very considerable distance , we rank the character of Eiisaina , whom we may term a Hebrew of the old school , and whose near affinity to Helon , whose maturity of habit and experience , and " multitude of years , " are of essential use in the conduct ' of
the narrative , and in bnng ^ n ^ ^^ ijt the succession of events . The tragifaj ^ issue of this pilgriuiage , is c ) 4 e& $$# - casioned by tho ^ pr ppert ^ e |>|;^ s ^ ma s temper , whiph , $$ qve ^^ wUL- ^ are the most exCe ^ tio ^ fe , ^^^ ^ perhaps are yet inpre p ^ o ^ il e / i ^^ the ongjnal tian 4 nJte ( J traj ^^ p % M
—* . ¦ ¦— : ¦ i ( . "; . 1 . " — ' i ' . ' . ¦¦ va wi&m W $ * * All the information thai we possess in respect of Strauss , rts from the PreTice , ( Translator ' s , ) p . xxii . , We pr ^ Httl ^ t ^ at he is a Lutheran ; clergyman \ Jg&iJo frrtyfig * norant in what part of Gerai ^^ ^ h ^ F ^ r si 4 ^« I ** w /
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228 Review . —/ felon ' s Pilgrimqgc to , Jerusalem _ K& * ^^^^ - !¦ A ^ A ^ ^ ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/40/
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