Book contents
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 ENGLISH ORIGINS OF ENGLISH ORATORIO
- PART II THE PATRIOT LIBRETTO FROM THE EXCISE BILL TO THE JEW BILL: ISRAELITE ORATORIOS AND ENGLISH POLITICS
- Appendix I Libretto authors and sources
- Appendix 2 The oratorios and Methodism
- Notes
- Bibliography of sources cited
- Index
PART II - THE PATRIOT LIBRETTO FROM THE EXCISE BILL TO THE JEW BILL: ISRAELITE ORATORIOS AND ENGLISH POLITICS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 ENGLISH ORIGINS OF ENGLISH ORATORIO
- PART II THE PATRIOT LIBRETTO FROM THE EXCISE BILL TO THE JEW BILL: ISRAELITE ORATORIOS AND ENGLISH POLITICS
- Appendix I Libretto authors and sources
- Appendix 2 The oratorios and Methodism
- Notes
- Bibliography of sources cited
- Index
Summary
Shew me the man that dares and sings
Great David's verse to British strings:
Sublime attempt!
Isaac Watts, 'The Hebrew Poet', in Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects, Written chiefly in Younger Years (1734)It is no doubt, as worthy of Praise in an Englishman to fight in Defence of his Religion, whenever it is necessary in order to preserve our Church, as it was heretofore in the Jews to take up Arms in Defence of theirs: And, to speak Truth, our Nation is in point of Religion, in Circumstances that pretty much resemble the Jewish; for, let our Enemies come from what Quarter they will, who can say that our Religion is so out of Danger, that a prudent Lover of it will have no Cause to be afraid of its being hurt?
A Dissertation on Patriotism: Shewing, the Use of those Two Great Qualifications of a Patriot, Integrity and Courage (1735)- Type
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- Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought , pp. 171 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995