My mother told her of my fondness for the hymn-book, and she turned to me with a smile and said, "Won't you learn one hymn for me--one hymn that I love very much?"英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The remaining hymns are mostly of the briefest compass, merely hailing the god to be celebrated and mentioning his chief attributes. The Hymns to "Hermes" (xviii), to the "Dioscuri" (xvii), and to "Demeter" (xiii) are mere abstracts of the longer hymns iv, xxxiii, and ii.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
Some of the old hymns did seem to lend us wings, so full were they of aspiration and hope and courage. To a little child, reading them or hearing them sung was like being caught up in a strong man's arms, to gaze upon some wonderful landscape. These climbing and flying hymns,--how well I remember them, although they were among the first I learned! They are of the kind that can never wear out. We all know them by their first lines,--英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
As I think back to my childhood, it seems to me as if the air was full of hymns, as it was of the fragrance of clover-blossoms, and the songs of bluebirds and robins, and the deep undertone of the sea. And the purity, the calmness, and the coolness of the dear old Sabbath days seems lingering yet in the words of those familiar hymns, whenever I bear them sung. Their melody penetrates deep into my life, assuming me that I have not left the green pastures and the still waters of my childhood very far behind me.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
And so I leave him, with two hints. If any one wishes to see the justice of my censure, let him read one of the Alexandrian hymns, and immediately after it, one of those glorious old Homeric hymns to the very same deities; let him contrast the insincere and fulsome idolatry of Callimachus with the reverent, simple and manful anthropomorphism of the Homerist--and let him form his own judgment.英文原著 · 《Alexandria and her Schools》
- Amen? - amen. now if you'll take out your hymnals and turn to page 335. what are you doing?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
No, "Hymn" 253: "His Eyes Are on the Sparrow." When my parents got divorced, I started using humor as a defense mechanism.美剧 · 《Friends》
To show their devotion, monks and nuns Had to recite the psalms, hymns, or chants at specific times all day long.美剧 · 《White Collar》
So I had had enough hymnals and crosses to last me a lifetime. so I had had enough hymnals and crosses to last me a lifetime.演讲 · 《Where is home ~ Pico Iyer》
Now, when you and Elizabeth enter through the West door, you will be greeted by the hymn ''l was glad when they said unto me.''电影 · 《The King's Speech (2010)》