Jephthahs Daughter And Other Poems Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Jephthah's Daughter and Other Poems If any one were to object to this play on the ground that no modern dramatist ought to take a subject from the Scriptures, I should content myself with saying that such a prohibition would be too broad. It is not applicable alike to all the Jewish Chronicles, and least of all to a mythic story which is to be referred to times when the religion of the Hebrews was in a rudimentary condition, and when the effects of the effort made by Abraham and Moses to lift the Theistic conceptions of their countrymen on to a higher plane had wellnigh died away. Jahveh or Jehovah was little more to Jephthah and the Gileadites than a tribal God of Battles, such as Milcom and Chemosh were to Moab and Ammon. By the time we come to the days of the Prophets, when God had become the universal Creator, the boundless Being whose attributes, besides omnipotence, were love, mercy, pity, forgiveness and fatherhood, who was at once the touchstone and sanction for all hope, desire, and mental outlook, the whole case is altered; then and onwards the literature of the Jews, bound up with their religion, and hardly less with ours, becomes sacrosanct and not to be touched. I have for the foregoing reasons deemed myself at full liberty to deal as I pleased with the story of Jephthah's daughter. I have preserved the main incidents in all their naked cruelty, but I have not scrupled to weave around them the details of a romantic drama. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Jephthah's Daughter Two songs with but one burden, twin-like tales. Sad tales but this the sadder of the twain This song, a wail more desolately wild; More fraught this story with grim fate, fulfilled Nor with less ghastly grandeur opening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Jephthah: And Other Poems I have endeavoured to complete the picture by supplying the minute shades and probable incidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Jephthah's Daughter: A Drama in Five Acts, Founded on the Eleventh Chapter of Judges And the stern majesty of Jephthah, outcast and insulted; feeling keenly the wrongs he suffered, yet, by his determination and energy, aided by the blessing of the God he served, patiently working out a reputation which finally triumphed, and brought him the honor for which he toiled so long and faithfully, has been a favorite subject for study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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