THE LITERARY STYLE OF THE BIBLE.
Sydney Smith, talking of beauty of jiyle, remarked-^'What ao beautiful as that of the Bible? What poetry in its " Jsnguoge and ideas !'" and taking it down -Irom the bookcase behind him, he read/ with his beautiful roice, and with his most impressiTe manner, several of his favorite passages; amongst others (says Lady Holland) I remember—" Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man;" and part of that most beautiful of Psalms, the 135th—"O Lord, Thou bnowest my down sitting and mine up-rising; Thou understandest xaj thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path and lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. ... Whither ■ball Igo from Tby spirit? If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there ; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, then there shall Thy right hand lead me, and Thy right hand hold nm. If I say 1 Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me; yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee ; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee; "—putting the Bible again on the «belf, '
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5129, 25 June 1885, Page 3
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222THE LITERARY STYLE OF THE BIBLE. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5129, 25 June 1885, Page 3
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