VERSES. Several have been of opinion, that the Hebrews had measured Verses, after the Manner of the Greeks and Romans; others think, that all their Poetry consisted of Rhymes: Lastly, it is the Sentiment of some, that their Poetry was composed of a free kind of Verse, the Beauty of which consisted in the Boldness of the Thoughts and Expressions, and in certain agreeable Cadences. See our Dissertation upon the Poetry of the Hebrews before Exodus, and the Article POETRY, before.
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