Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments and editorial notes
- INTRODUCTION: An overview of scope and method
- PART I CONTEXTS: INTELLECTUAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND NATIONAL
- PART II TEXTS WITHIN CONTEXTS. ESSAYING ENGLAND: OUR GENIUS, OUR CLIME
- PART III GROWING ONE'S OWN. THE BRITISH ODE FROM COWLEY TO GRAY
- PART IV EXPANDING THE BORDERS. JEWS AND JESUS: THIS ISRAEL, THIS ENGLAND
- PART V CELTS, GERMANS, AND SCOTS: TOWARDS A UNITED KINGDOM
- APPENDIX: The text of Handel's “Israel in Egypt”
- Index
APPENDIX: The text of Handel's “Israel in Egypt”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments and editorial notes
- INTRODUCTION: An overview of scope and method
- PART I CONTEXTS: INTELLECTUAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND NATIONAL
- PART II TEXTS WITHIN CONTEXTS. ESSAYING ENGLAND: OUR GENIUS, OUR CLIME
- PART III GROWING ONE'S OWN. THE BRITISH ODE FROM COWLEY TO GRAY
- PART IV EXPANDING THE BORDERS. JEWS AND JESUS: THIS ISRAEL, THIS ENGLAND
- PART V CELTS, GERMANS, AND SCOTS: TOWARDS A UNITED KINGDOM
- APPENDIX: The text of Handel's “Israel in Egypt”
- Index
Summary
Part The First
RECITATIVE
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph; and he set over Israel taskmasters to afflict them with burthens, and they made them serve with rigor. Exodus 1:8, 11, 13.
CHORUS
And the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and their cry came up unto God. They oppressed them with burthens, and made them serve with rigor; and their cry came up unto God. Exodus 2: 23.
RECITATIVE
Then sent He Moses, His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen; these shewed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He turned their waters into blood. Psalms 105: 26, 27, 29.
CHORUS
They loathed to drink of the river. He turned their waters into blood. Exodus 7: 18, 19.
AIR
Their land brought forth frogs, yea, even in their king's chambers. Psalms 105: 30.
He gave their cattle over to the pestilence; blotches and blains broke forth on man and beast. Exodus 9: 9, 10.
CHORUS
He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.
He spake; and the locusts came without number, and devoured the fruits of the ground. Psalms 105: 31, 34, 35.
CHORUS
He gave them hailstones for rain; fire mingled with the hail ran along upon the ground. Psalms 105: 32; Exodus 9: 23, 24.
CHORUS
He sent a thick darkness over the land, even darkness which might be felt. Exodus 10: 21.
CHORUS
He smote all the first-born of Egypt, the chief of all their strength. Psalms 105: 36, 37.
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- Britannia's IssueThe Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian, pp. 572 - 576Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993