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... Ambrose and the latest ones in recent years for the new feast of the Assumption . They are of great religious and literary interest . In the history of literature they are important for the way in which classical forms were adapted to ...
... Ambrose and the latest ones in recent years for the new feast of the Assumption . They are of great religious and literary interest . In the history of literature they are important for the way in which classical forms were adapted to ...
Page xv
... Ambrose wrote his hymns to be sung , and so have most hymn - writers since . To read a hymn is like reading a libretto ; the composer is not justified and the reader is not satisfied . Un- fortunately the regular choral celebration of ...
... Ambrose wrote his hymns to be sung , and so have most hymn - writers since . To read a hymn is like reading a libretto ; the composer is not justified and the reader is not satisfied . Un- fortunately the regular choral celebration of ...
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... Ambrose and the Milanese had no such difficulties . They were only too ready to sing what he com- posed , and the choice by Ambrose of the iambic metre was the element of the un- expected which genius always turns to success . The story ...
... Ambrose and the Milanese had no such difficulties . They were only too ready to sing what he com- posed , and the choice by Ambrose of the iambic metre was the element of the un- expected which genius always turns to success . The story ...
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... , a spondee is used , sometimes necessarily , sometimes optionally , in place of a trochee , dactyl , iamb or anapaest . St Ambrose , like the classical poets , sometimes uses a spondee for an iamb in INTRODUCTION xix.
... , a spondee is used , sometimes necessarily , sometimes optionally , in place of a trochee , dactyl , iamb or anapaest . St Ambrose , like the classical poets , sometimes uses a spondee for an iamb in INTRODUCTION xix.
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... Ambrose wrote his hymns for the people and so had to make them popular . To do this , he did not desert the quantitative system , in which he was well versed . Instead he formed verses of iambic dimeter , which the classical writers ...
... Ambrose wrote his hymns for the people and so had to make them popular . To do this , he did not desert the quantitative system , in which he was well versed . Instead he formed verses of iambic dimeter , which the classical writers ...
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Adam of St Aeterna angels antiphon Apostles Asclepiad Author beata blessed blood Breviary Breviary hymns caeli caritas catalectic century Christ Christian Compline conditor corona Corpus creator Cujus dactyl death decus Deus Dies irae dimeter Dominus doxology earth Easter eternal faith Father feast fides Fortunatus gift give glory God's grace gratia Haec heart heaven heavenly holy honour iambic dimeter Jesus king Latin Lauds light Lord lucis man's martyrs Mary mater Matins meaning Metre mother munera nobis Notes on Hymn nunc omnes original Patris Pentecost praise prayer Prudentius quae quam quod redeemer redemptor refers rerum revisers rhyme saints salutis sanctis Sapphic sing sins sorrow soul Spiritus spondee St Ambrose St Thomas terra tibi trimeter Trochaic trochee tuis Unknown Veni verse Vespers Vespers and Matins Virgin Virgo vitae words
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Page 12 - Christe. Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius. Tu, ad liberandum suscepturus hominem, non horruisti Virginis uterum.
Page 174 - Eia Mater, fons amoris ! Me sentire vim doloris Fac, ut tecum lugeam. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum In amando Christum Deum Ut sibi complaceam.
Page 33 - Deus: Fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona, et divisit lucem a tenebris. Appellavitque lucem diem et tenebras noctem. Factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.
Page 37 - Dixit autem Deus : Fiant luminaria in firmamento cceli, et dividant diem ac noctem : et sint in signa et tempora, et dies, et annos : et luceant in firmamento coeli, et illuminent terram.
Page 12 - Dignare, Domine, die isto sine peccato nos custodire. Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri. Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos quemadmodum speravimus in te. In te, Domine, speravi ; non confundar in aeternum.
Page 88 - I saw the tomb of the now living Christ. I saw the glory of Christ, now risen. "I saw angels who gave witness; the cloths too which once had covered head and limbs. "Christ my hope has arisen. He will go before his own into Galilee.
Page 35 - Et ait: Germinet terra herbam virentem et facientem semen, et lignum pomiferum faciens fructum juxta genus suum, cujus semen in semetipso sit super terram.
Page 44 - Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes In hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes Oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, Nobis post hoc exilium ostende. O Clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.
Page 10 - TE DEUM laudamus : te Dominum confitemur. Te aeternum patrem omnis terra veneratur. Tibi omnes angeli, tibi caeli et universae potestates, Tibi cherubim et seraphim incessabili voce proclamant Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Pleni sunt caeli et terra majestatis gloriae tuae.
Page 242 - Et ab hoedis me sequestra. Statuens in parte dextra. Confutatis maledictis, Flammis acribus addictis, Voca me cum benedictis. Oro supplex et acclinis, Cor contritum quasi cinis : Gere curam mei finis. Lacrymosa dies ilia, Qua resurget ex favilla, Judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce Deus, Pie Jesu, Domine, Dona eis requiem. Amen.