The Hymn as LiteratureCentury Company, 1924 - 367 páginas |
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... natural reasons slow in coming ; but it has come . Yet to call the hymn poetry is to many minds a new and bold assumption . That this expression of the human spirit has no right to the name of liter- ature is a judgment not confined ...
... natural reasons slow in coming ; but it has come . Yet to call the hymn poetry is to many minds a new and bold assumption . That this expression of the human spirit has no right to the name of liter- ature is a judgment not confined ...
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... nature , the flowers of the spring , and the harvests of autumn , the vicissitudes of the tide , and the revolutions of the sky , and praise his Maker in lines which no reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not ...
... nature , the flowers of the spring , and the harvests of autumn , the vicissitudes of the tide , and the revolutions of the sky , and praise his Maker in lines which no reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not ...
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... natural law , which is , after all , like every natural law , irresistible ; we are none the better for trying to make ourselves Semitic , when nature has made us Indo - European , and to shift the basis of our poetry . We may mean well ...
... natural law , which is , after all , like every natural law , irresistible ; we are none the better for trying to make ourselves Semitic , when nature has made us Indo - European , and to shift the basis of our poetry . We may mean well ...
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... nature , and being , perhaps , as Professor William P. Trent says , the best single character of the English race , might have been ex- pected to write the greatest hymns . He had a warm interest in hymns as had his father before him ...
... nature , and being , perhaps , as Professor William P. Trent says , the best single character of the English race , might have been ex- pected to write the greatest hymns . He had a warm interest in hymns as had his father before him ...
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... natural beauty , but at the same time he must be on his way . The twenty - third Psalm deals with nature ideally from the hymnal point of view . The poem , as it is rendered in the King James version , is es- sentially , in manner ...
... natural beauty , but at the same time he must be on his way . The twenty - third Psalm deals with nature ideally from the hymnal point of view . The poem , as it is rendered in the King James version , is es- sentially , in manner ...
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Angels beauty beginning Bishop blessings blest Cædmon century Charles Wesley Christ Christian church Church of England crown darkness death Dies Iræ divine doth earth England English hymnody English hymns eternal expression faith George Wither glory grace Greek hath heart heaven heavenly Heber Hebrew holy hope human hymn hymn-book Hymnal hymnist hymnody idea Isaac Watts Jesus John Mason Neale John Wesley King Latin hymns light lines literature live London Lord lyrical poetry mercy seat meter mind morning Nearer night o'er Oxford poem poet poetic popular praise prayer Psalms published religion religious lyrical religious song rime saints says sorrow soul stanza Sternhold and Hopkins sung Sweet Spirit comfort thee thine things Thomas Sternhold thou art thought throne tion to-day translations truth twenty-third Psalm verse voice Watts's weary Wesley's wings words worship write written wrote York
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Página 59 - Now I say, that JESUS CHRIST was a minister of the circumcision, for the truth of GOD, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers : and that the Gentiles might glorify GOD for his mercy ; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name : and again he saith, Rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people : and again, Praise the LORD, all ye Gentiles ; and laud him, all ye people.
Página 218 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid ; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 324 - Holy, Holy, Holy ! though the darkness hide Thee, Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see, Only Thou art Holy : there is none beside Thee, Perfect in power, in love, and purity. 4 Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty...
Página 340 - People and realms, of every tongue, Dwell on His love with sweetest song ; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His name.
Página 221 - Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee ; Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.
Página 232 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on. I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
Página 278 - Bring me my Bow of burning gold : Bring me my Arrows of desire : Bring me my Spear : O clouds unfold ! Bring me my Chariot of fire. I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Página 13 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Página 232 - LEAD, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home! Lead Thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene — one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on. I loved to choose and see my path, but now Lead Thou me on!
Página 37 - I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee.