Cantique

Le grand admirateur des choses, c'est l'auteur du cantique des créatures, saint François d'Assises. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He started the cantique with a thin quavering voice which was then taken up by the school-children, particularly the boys who roared with juvenile patriotism and energy each time they repeated the last line, "pour notre drapeau, pour notre patrie." ❋ Mary Alsop King Waddington (N/A)

French cantique, which has taken the place of the traditional religious songs, is sentimental, quasi-military, and savours of the world, plainly showing the influence of the favourite French musical form, the opera. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Once only, in the famous cantique 'Roi du Ciel,' did the composer catch an echo of the prophetic rapture which animated the youthful enthusiast. ❋ J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland (1892)

Upon this, a Gascon deputy arises and remarks in his southern accent, "Gentlemen, this style is unsuitable -- there is no need for sermons. [31104] (cantique)." ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)

Mais à peine l'esquif eut-il touché les flots Qu'au cantique chanté par les saints matelots, L'ouragan replia ses ailes frémissantes, Que la mer aplanit ses vagues mugissantes, Et qu'un soleil plus pur, reparaissant aux cieux, Enveloppa l'esquif d'un cercle radieux! ... ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

The one was a metrical cantique of the _Prodigal Son, _ with six wood cuts above the text, exhibiting the leading points of the Gospel-narrative. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

Daniel-Lesur's 'Le cantique des cantiques' - 'Song of Songs', or the Song of Solomon - dealt sweetly with a text which, with its dignified ideal of a love at once human and divine, has had a profounder effect on Sufism than it has on Christianity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

entendre àla fois tout cantique, et des Dies iræ et des ❋ CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN (1994)

Mais à peine l’esquif eut-il touché les flots Qu’au cantique chanté par les saints matelots, L’ouragan replia ses ailes frémissantes, Que la mer aplanit ses vagues mugissantes, Et qu’un soleil plus pur, reparaissant aux cieux, Enveloppa l’esquif d’un cercle radieux! ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

"In the text Greek mythology, cantique ecclesiastique; in the Allegro, a Bacchic festival. ❋ Kerst, Friedrich (1904)