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... hymns and editor of a notable American hymn - book . John Quincy Adams trans- lated the whole Book of Psalms into English verse , besides writing the large number of hymns in his " Poems of Religion and Society . ' " " The hymn is so ...
... hymns and editor of a notable American hymn - book . John Quincy Adams trans- lated the whole Book of Psalms into English verse , besides writing the large number of hymns in his " Poems of Religion and Society . ' " " The hymn is so ...
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... hymnody in the life of the people . Bede tells , for example , of the famous " Halleluiah victory " of Germanicus over the Saxons and Picts wherein by a " universal ' shouting ... English 1 language is in hymns , it can claim no THE HYMN 13.
... hymnody in the life of the people . Bede tells , for example , of the famous " Halleluiah victory " of Germanicus over the Saxons and Picts wherein by a " universal ' shouting ... English 1 language is in hymns , it can claim no THE HYMN 13.
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... hymn has been published , up to 1910 , in more than 137 modern English translations . Few other pro- ductions of the Latin language have seen so many published English renderings . If hymnody flourished in medieval Latin , it has found ...
... hymn has been published , up to 1910 , in more than 137 modern English translations . Few other pro- ductions of the Latin language have seen so many published English renderings . If hymnody flourished in medieval Latin , it has found ...
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... English poetry that it holds in the German , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew literatures . It had to struggle against the strongly intrenched " Psalms in ... translations of the Hebrew hymnody . But since the eighteenth 16 THE HYMN AS LITERATURE.
... English poetry that it holds in the German , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew literatures . It had to struggle against the strongly intrenched " Psalms in ... translations of the Hebrew hymnody . But since the eighteenth 16 THE HYMN AS LITERATURE.
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... hymns as his contribution to modern English hymnody . It was less true when Johnson repeated the statement . Addison and Johnson themselves differed diametrically in their opinions as to hym- nody . Devoted as Addison was to the literature ...
... hymns as his contribution to modern English hymnody . It was less true when Johnson repeated the statement . Addison and Johnson themselves differed diametrically in their opinions as to hym- nody . Devoted as Addison was to the literature ...
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