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Art . I . —H . elorC * Pilgrimage to Jerusalem y fyv . By F . Strauss . ( Continued from p . 230 . ) TH E story related in this work , has been enlivened and made dramatic , by a considerable portion of dialogue , which , inasmuch as it is usually characteristic and interesting , does great credit to the author ' s talents .
Our readers , we doubt not , will be pleased # Wh the following conversation : it occurs after a pause in ElisairraVsketcb of tfte scriptural ' history of the Jews , winch he has brought
down to the end of the reign of Solomon ; & point vyhere the venerable man teeaka off , that he " may preserve mntbirtgl ^ d th £ remembrance of those glorious days . ' *
" Blessed . . foe ; the Lord / exclaimed Helon /* the King of the warld , who vobcfcsafed such a time to his peopled ' iC' It is not to be f lenied / said Myron , * that it must have been a joyful time in Jerusalem and the whole land of Jtidea , under Solomon . And yet your nation seems to me better fitted for a
wandering life through the wilderness , such as was yesterday described to us . ' " « Why so ? ' asked Helou . "' Because you knew not how to improve your good fortune / < c Helou was astonished , " * T pity a people so destitute of all
taste and skill in the fine arts as yours . They want to build a temple and a house of the forest of Lebanon—gold and silver they have in abundance , but they are obliged to send for artists from Tyre ; they come , execute their works , and leave these behind them , without having
communicated to your nation the small * - est portion of their dexterity / " * Th ^ re have not been wanting amongst us in all ages / saidHelon , ' excellent artificers / < c 4 Single instances decide nothing , said Myron ; 'but a nation which , in its
num flourishing period , is obliged to engage artists from foreign kings , and can do nothing by its Own ingenuity and dex : ^ rity , is sure ly a poor and helpless race ! . How different from the great Iielktafic people ! Poetry in abundance I have indeed heard from you , but this is the only © ranch of art in which you have done
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any thing . No painting , no statuary , no drama 44 ' Thou V speakest , * said Eiisaraa , interposing angrily , * like a blind heathen , and what I have so often intimated seems
to Lave been lost upon thee . Israel was not designed , nor ever aimed , to excel in such worldly aits . It was to be a kingdom of priests and a holy people , to receive and to preserve the law of
Jehovah ; and on this account he calls it his people , his Jeshurun , his beloved Israel . The time which other nations might devote to the culture of the elegant arttf , Israel was to spend in the observance # f the law . You have omitted all mention
too of our music . This and our poetry are alone worthy tp accompany the people before the presence of Jehovah ; his temple rrnist be splendid , but it is of no consequence that it was made so by foreign hands . Besides , the present temple , which yields little if at all to the former , was built by native artists , and
supposing that in Solomon ' s time ardhiteeture was unknown among us , cbiftd this skill be reasonably expected * } n a nation which had struggled for five hundred years for the possession © C the * si $ ft , which even then had notbe ^ o completely united for more than Juilf a peatery * aiid had passed a considerable oorti ^ i * ^ y ^ n of that short time in internal
commotion !' 644 You are unjust , Myron , in another respect , ' added Helon ^ * the state of the aits among a people should be judged of from that department in which it has put forth its powers . Compare our poets with yours ; we have no need to fear the comparison . ' 6 l
< Mention to nc » e then your Homer and Sophocles , ' said Myron . cc < In those species of poetry our fathers have written nothing . But name to me a Greek , who has surpassed the odes of David , the elegies of Jeremiah ^ or the epigrams and scalia of Solotnon . * 4 ( 4 I will read your poets / said Myron , 4 when 1 return to Aldtfafidria , but it & impossible that a barbarian 8 houM ; i 4 ^ the great masters of ' -Greetfe . ' ¦ ¦¦ * •» ! ¦ ¦ - ( i
" * Compare , with a mind free itmm prejudice , as bepomq ^ a- tp $ & ^ irttlo df art , and you will be astqnisljeA at tfe iyrie flights of our Ps ^ ro ^ wh ^ ic ^ ^ re t ^ ii ^ r behind ; at the plaintly ^ te ^ d ^ nje ^^ of Jefeteitrh , more deep atid touching than that of Simonides . Remember , too , that this poetry of ours was never designed
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/39/
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