10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON METRE»
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common metre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Book of Psalms, Rendered Into
Common Metre Verse, from ...
entirely in common metre; second, wholly again in miscellaneous metres. The
first, in common metre, he has completed ; but with the second he has advanced,
it will be seen, only to the fiftieth Psalm. If what he has done meet with general ...
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Hymns and spiritual songs. 1st Worcester ed
LV, COMMON METRE. Frail Life and succeeding Eternity, i J"T"*HEE we adore,
eternal name, i And humbly own to thee, How feeble is our mortal frame ; What
dying worms are we i * [Our wasting lives grow shorter still, As months and days ...
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Sacred poetry, consisting of psalms and hymns selected from ...
PSALM VI. Common Metre. & Prayer in Sickness. 1 In anger, Lord, rebuke me not
, But spare a wretch forlorn ; Correct me not in thy fierce wrath, Too heavy to be
borne. 2 Sorrow and pain consume the day, I waste the night with cries, Counting
...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of psalms and hymns, adapted to ...
PSALM CVIIL Common Metre. a A general Song of Praise. OGod, my grateful
soul aspires To magnify thy name ! \ My tongue, with cheerful songs of praise,
Shall celebrate thy fame. Awake, my heart, and thou, my voice, Thy willing tribute
pay ...
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Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One ...
The occasion of composing these Songs, upon this Book, was, that after a report
made in an open Synod, that most of the Scripture Songs were already attempted
in common metre, and ready to be transcribed, a question was put, Whether the ...
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Scottish Metrical Psalter: Psalms of David in
Metre
... psalms and some other scriptural paraphrases for its English-language hymns.
each psalm is rendered in a regular metre that can be sung to any melody that
follows that rhythm. for example, the indication 8,6,8,6 or Common metre (C.m.) at
...
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Psalms, Carefully Suited to the Christian Worship in the ...
Common Metre. The Faithfulness of God. 1 ~hM T never-ceasing song shall
show JY1 The mercies of the Lord ; And make succeeding ages know How
faithful is his word. t The sacred truths his lips pronounce Shall iimi as heaven
endure ...
Isaac Watts, Joel Barlow,
1818
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The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra ...
effect of the heavy stresses that the coincidence of intonational and accentual
patterns in the four-stress line lends itself to, for the degree and metronomic
regularity of the stress characteristic of common metre are marks of what Foucault
terms ...
Anustubh A metre of thirty-two syllables in four pādas – the śloka, the most
common metre in Sanskrit verse from the epics on. Anvāhāryapacana =
Daksināgnifire. Āpad-dharma 'Misfortune-dharma': alternative standards of
behaviour ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMON METRE»
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It was quite common in the days of the Emperor to announce a zameen, a common metre and rhyming structure, that would then be used by ... «The Hindu, Feb 13»
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Majority of buildings have a common metre that gauges the total water consumption of residents irrespective of the amount each household ... «Deccan Herald, Feb 10»