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On the sentimental and the sanctimonious, the learned professor's hymnic prose may exercise a great emotional appeal, but to the agnostic majority it remains nothing but pretty phrases .

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ambrosian hymns remained the type of all the hymnic poetry of succeeding centuries.

From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Keeping these important facts in mind regarding the psalms, the student may pass on to other hymnic sources in the Old Testament.

From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Messenger, Ruth Ellis

This paraphrase, by Alexander Pope, of the Emperor Adrian's death-bed address to his soul— Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis, —transfers the poetry and constructs a hymnic theme.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

The insight that mystery,—the Mystery, as such is final, is the hymnic word.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry