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Page xxix
... ecclesiastical poetry was fully developed , S. Notker and the Monks of S. Gall hit out a similar one for the Latin Church : the Sequence or the Prose . It was not copied from the East , for we have S. Notker's own account of the way in ...
... ecclesiastical poetry was fully developed , S. Notker and the Monks of S. Gall hit out a similar one for the Latin Church : the Sequence or the Prose . It was not copied from the East , for we have S. Notker's own account of the way in ...
Page xxxviii
... ecclesiastical poetry : poetry , not strictly speaking written in verse , but in measured prose . This is the staple of those three thousand pages - under whatever name the stanzas may be presented - forming Canons and Odes ; as ...
... ecclesiastical poetry : poetry , not strictly speaking written in verse , but in measured prose . This is the staple of those three thousand pages - under whatever name the stanzas may be presented - forming Canons and Odes ; as ...
Page xli
... ecclesiastical scholars are content to remain of this huge treasure of divinity- the gradual completion of nine centuries at least . I may safely calculate that not one out of twenty who peruse these pages will ever have read a Greek ...
... ecclesiastical scholars are content to remain of this huge treasure of divinity- the gradual completion of nine centuries at least . I may safely calculate that not one out of twenty who peruse these pages will ever have read a Greek ...
Page xliii
... ecclesiastical poetry , by slow de- grees , to a stilted bombast , giving great words to little meaning , heaping up epithet on epithet , tricking out common- places in diction more and more gorgeous , till sense aud simplicity are ...
... ecclesiastical poetry , by slow de- grees , to a stilted bombast , giving great words to little meaning , heaping up epithet on epithet , tricking out common- places in diction more and more gorgeous , till sense aud simplicity are ...
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Adam adore Angel blest Canon Catavasia Cento CHRIST is risen commemorated compositions Constantine Constantine Pogonatus Constantinople Cosmas Council of Nicæa Creation bless cry with heart's death didst dost thou earth earthly Eastern Church ecclesiastical poetry eternal evermore Exult faith Fathers gladness glorious glory grace Gregory Nazianzen Habakkuk heart's endeavour hearts Heav'n heavenly Hirmos Holy art Thou hymn Hymnographers Iconoclastic Icons Idiomela Image Men immortality Incarnate Jerusalem JESUS John Damascene King Leo the Armenian Let all Creation light LORD magnify His Name Manichæism Martyrs mercy mighty Monarch Monotheletism mortal o'er Octoechus ODE VIII Pascha Patriarch Tarasius peace Pentecostarion poet praise Priest Quinquagesima raise Resurrection Saints shalt sing song sorrow soul SPIRIT stanzas STICHERA Studium Sunday Synaxarion Thee Theodore Thine Thou art bless'd throne to-day tomb Triodion Troparia troparion victory Virgin Wherefore we cry wondrous WORD ἐκ ἐν καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸν τῶν
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Page 27 - Christian, dost thou hear them, How they speak thee fair, "Always fast and vigil, Always watch and prayer?" Christian, answer boldly, "While I breathe I pray!
Page 87 - If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay ? " Not till earth and not till heaven Pass away.
Page 26 - Christian, dost thou see them On the holy ground, How the troops of Midian Prowl and prowl around ? Christian, up and smite them, Counting gain but loss; Smite them by the merit Of the holy Cross.
Page 130 - Safe home, safe home in port ! — Rent cordage, shattered deck, Torn sails, provisions short, And only not a wreck...
Page 86 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my guide ? " In His feet and hands are wound-prints, And His side.
Page 40 - With hymns of victory. 2 Our hearts be pure from evil, That we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal Of resurrection-light ; And, listening to His accents, May hear so calm and plain His own " All hail," and hearing, May raise the victor strain.
Page 40 - Now let the heavens be joyful ; Let earth her song begin ; Let the round world keep triumph, And all that is therein...
Page 63 - THOSE eternal bowers Man hath never trod, Those unfading flowers Round the throne of GOD. Who may hope to gain them After weary fight ? Who at length attain them Clad in robes of white ? He, who gladly barters All on earthly ground ; He who, like the martyrs, Says ' I will be crowned ' : He, whose one oblation Is a life of love ; Clinging to the nation Of the blest above.
Page 137 - Still let them succour us ; still let them fight, LORD of Angelic hosts, battling for right ; Till, where their anthems they ceaselessly pour, We with the Angels may bow and adore.
Page 3 - The toils of day are over : I raise the hymn to thee ; And ask that free from peril The hours of fear may be.