A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The reader will observe that Budde mentions Lowth. Now Rosenmtiller's edition of Lowth (1815, p. 565) refers to this very passage in Bellermann, and that is the edition commonly used in Germany. But we shall find eventually that Bellermann has been too much neglected by others also who have unconsciously depended on him. In the case of Budde himself, the oversight just noted is more than balanced by the frank confession which he makes in the article 'poetry in Hastings's Dictionary of tbe Be'ole, and which I take pleasure in quoting: 'we have here to do with a subject akin to mathematics, a subject giving scope for playing with numbers. It is a fact perhaps too little observed, that all departments of study akin to this offer a Special incentive to the ingenuity. One need only recall the subject of Chronology. One must have at some time gone deeply for himself into the subject of Hebrew metre and triumphed over the temptation to lose oneself there, before he can understand the attraction wielded by such Speculations. Since the present writer has had this experi ence he has no finished metrical system to offer, nor can he attach himself unreservedly to any of the others that have been proposed, although he cheerfully concedes that to each of the above-named champions of metre we are indebted for much stimulus and help.'

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