The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . DAVIi) THE PSALMIST. Drawing t>v Jolmuu you Fflhrich FR1EDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER 183 and the birthdays of these songs, almost three thousandyears intervene ? Do they not all breathe the samefreshness of life as if they had been composed but yes-terday ? It seems to us with them as if we dwelt in ourown houses and beside our own altars ; and this thoughtrests on no delusion. How strange t
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . DAVIi) THE PSALMIST. Drawing t>v Jolmuu you Fflhrich FR1EDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER 183 and the birthdays of these songs, almost three thousandyears intervene ? Do they not all breathe the samefreshness of life as if they had been composed but yes-terday ? It seems to us with them as if we dwelt in ourown houses and beside our own altars ; and this thoughtrests on no delusion. How strange the songs of othernations sound to us, while in the Psalms of Israel weeverywhere meet with our own God, and with the wholerange of our own personal feelings and experiences. Isit not clear from this that it was He who knows thehearts, whose throne is in the heavens, who himselfloosed the tongue of the sacred singer that he mightsing his songs for all ages, and give expression to all thediverse moods of feeling which move ever and anon inthe world of hallowed human thought ?—David, Kingqf KRYLOFF, or KRILOFF, Ivan Andrievitch,a Russian fabulist, born at Moscow, February 13,1768 ; died in St. Petersburg, November 21, boyhood he held a post under government, andwrote Philomela, Cleopatra, and other plays. Hewas engaged in journalism at the capital for someyears, and from 1797 to 1801 lived as tutor at thecountry-seat of Prince Galitzin, whom he thenaccompanied to Livonia as secretary. A passionfor cards led him for a time into a wandering first fables, numbering twenty-three, appearedin 1809; their success was so rapid that he gavehis mind to this species of composition. Begin-ning with translations and imitations of La Fon-taine, he soon became original and national; be-fore his death 77,000 copies had been sold in Rus-sia, and his fame had reached other lands. Hebecame a member of the Academy of Sciences in1811, held a post in the Imperial Library 181
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