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Brother John Tikytt (or Tikyll), Prior of the Augustinian Monastery of Wyrkesopp, England, was engaged, about the year 1310, in limning a psalter. He finished 90 pages, with elaborate titles in gold and colors for each psalm, a miniature for each page, and a small painting at the bottom of each column of text. Then after sketching in his decorations for 23 more pages, this skillful illuminator died under circumstances unknown to history...
King James American Bible Version Psalm 23 The Lord is my Shepherd," I shall not want ; herd; I shall not want. In green meadows he he He the dawn in still maketh leadeth makes me lie down; To refreshing waters lie leads me. . . . St. Luke: 23: 43-46 And he said to him, And Jesus said unto "I tell you, you will him, Verily I say unto be in today!" Paradise with me thee, Today shall lkolt be with me in paradise. It was now about And it was about the noon, and darkness sixth hour, and there-'came...
...Virtue of Idleness." Irishman George William Russell ("AE") declared in Manhattan: "I've a complaint against he U. S. It arises out of Longfellow's 'Psalm of Life.' That poem is drilled into every child. They never forget . . . the line 'let us then be up and doing' and America has been 'up and doing' ever since. That is the cause of all your economic problems. You are working people so hard that you have, naturally, overproduction. You should cultivate the adorable virtue of idleness...
Seventeen years ago the primitive, pagan rhythms of Le Sacre du Printemps established Russian Igor Stravinsky as the most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant...
...Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing, but that time I did not laugh...