The dirtiest Hindoo sings to his fetish the songs of the Brahmin muse, with as keen a relish as the most devout Christian does the hymns of Dr. WATTS.

Long lines of yellow-robed priests will chant their last processional hymn to Buddha, and the smoking incense to waning gods shall be quenched forever.

It was now clearly remembered that there had once been rumors of terrible cruelties by a PENDRAGON family to an aged colored man of great piety; who, because he incessantly sang hymns in the cotton-field, was sent to a field farther from the PENDRAGON mansion, and ultimately died.

In doleful Hymns for dying Felons fit, Why do you tax their Eyes, and blame their Wit?

Others have formed unions, which assemble at the house of each member in turn and spend a few hours in singing the "maulud" or hymns on the birth of the Prophet (upon whom be peace).

In three months the children had been reduced to some sort of order, taught the alphabet and the way to sew; they could repeat a few texts, and sing a few hymns with some approach to sweetness.

But neither it, nor any other of the old Latin hymns by Irish writers, finds place in the Breviary.

And painful abstinences tame Of wanton flesh, the pride" (Hymn at Prime).

At the door, J.W. fell in with the little group of men, who, according to ancient custom, had waited in the yard for the announcement of the first hymn before ending their talk of crops and roads and stock, and joining the women and children within.

It includes verses from several Irishmen. (3) Hymns from the Roman Breviary, translated (Catholic Truth Society, London.

St. Augustine, commenting on Psalm 122, defined a hymn as a song with praise of God, cantus est cum laude Dei.

In this note, an attempt will be made to define a hymn, to tell of the introduction of hymns into the Roman Breviary, and to note briefly the character of these hymns.

Sometimes she would sit for hours with the stately cat upon her knee, thinking, thinking, thinking, while Pompey sang his favorite hymns about his work and the mellow strains floated up the stairway and soothed her lonely heart.

"No," answered the child, "I shall not get better, I am sure; and I wanted to ask master to let my class sing a hymn over my body, when they put it in the pit-hole."

He had a little room where he always used to preach and sing hymns out of his great old nose.

Where are the lights that shone of yore Around this haunted spring? Do they upon some distant shore Their holy lustre fling? It was not thus when pilgrims came To hymn beneath the night, And dimly gleam'd the censor's flame When stars and streams were bright.

" True, adoration of Earth, the All-Mother, runs like a choric hymn through all the tragedy.

Before examining the volume, one would say that no man could write so many hymns without frequent and signal failure.

My little Levite hath forsaken me, his silver sound of Cittern quite abolish[t], [h]is doleful hymns under my Chamber window, digested into tedious learning: well fool, you leapt a Haddock when you left him: he's a clean man, and a good edifier, and twenty nobles is his state de claro, besides his pigs in posse.

Then, then are strown over the face of the eternal earth the lovely violet-tufts, then are roses twined in hair, then sound to the flute's accompaniment voices of song, then sound our choice hymns unto the honour of bright-filleted Semele ...

Peire d'Auvergne wrote several religious hymns after his retirement from the world; these are largely composed of reiterated articles of the Christian faith in metrical form and are as unpoetical as they are orthodox, Crusade poems and planhs upon the deaths of famous nobles or patrons are religious only in a secondary sense.

Every reader of Dante will remember the sublime hymn towards the close of the Paradiso: "Vergine Madre, figlia del tuo figlio!

I had never attempted such a thing in my life as to "raise a tune" in public, and the only claim I had ever set up as a qualification was that I could put more tunes to each line of a hymn than any one that I had ever known.