There were Victorian songs of stilted enthusiasm for the innocence and clear sunny skies of the new country, hymned in the English art song idiom. |
For many centuries, he has been a comfortably rotund elephant-headed god hymned at the beginning of enterprises. |
Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation. |
Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody. |
Did I imagine it, or did she recognize the name of the scribe who had hymned her feminine allure? |
It sounds uncommonly like a means of mass-producing aesthetic intensities of the sort hymned at the close of Pater's Renaissance. |