The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyClarendon Press, 1997 - 552 Seiten Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century. |
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... Prayer'.12 Yet Ken is touchingly aware that it is impossible for a schoolboy to live up to such exalted ideas : Be not then afflicted , good Phil . if you cannot come up exactly to the Rules here given you . Believe me , it was never ...
... Prayer'.12 Yet Ken is touchingly aware that it is impossible for a schoolboy to live up to such exalted ideas : Be not then afflicted , good Phil . if you cannot come up exactly to the Rules here given you . Believe me , it was never ...
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... Prayer is the burden of a sigh , The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near . This is a list of attributes which illuminate , one after another , the many- sided experience of prayer . In this sense ...
... Prayer is the burden of a sigh , The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near . This is a list of attributes which illuminate , one after another , the many- sided experience of prayer . In this sense ...
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... prayer is made on earth alone : The Holy Spirit pleads ; And Jesus , on the eternal throne , For mourners intercedes . But then the hymn turns back to earth , delicately remembering the life of Christ ( John 14 : 6 ) and his own praying ...
... prayer is made on earth alone : The Holy Spirit pleads ; And Jesus , on the eternal throne , For mourners intercedes . But then the hymn turns back to earth , delicately remembering the life of Christ ( John 14 : 6 ) and his own praying ...
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The State of the Art | 1 |
The Singing of Hymns and the Experience of Metre | 22 |
The Whole Booke of Psalmes | 42 |
Urheberrecht | |
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