 A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world to write. In a good hymn you have to be commonplace and poetical. The moment you cease to be commonplace and put in any expression at all out of the common, it ceases to be a hymn.  The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson - Page 626by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 610 pages
...oceans of sham philosophy. To read these last is wading through glue.' 'A good hymn,' he said, 'is the most difficult thing in the world to write. In a good...The moment you cease to be common-place, and put in an expression at all out of the common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns, I like Heber's " Holy, ,... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horseracing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn ? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns I like Heber's l " Holy, Holy, Holy " better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to in a hundred... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poets, English - 1897 - 600 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horseracing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn ? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns I like Heber's l " Holy, Holy, Holy " better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to in a hundred... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 596 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horseracing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn ? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns I like Heber's 1 " Holy, Holy, Holy " better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to in a hundred... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poets, English - 1897 - 604 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horseracing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn ? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...the common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns I like Heber's1 "Holy, Holy, Holy" better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to in... | |
 | Hallam Lord Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson - Poets, English - 1897 - 1104 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horseicing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn ? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...the common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns I like Hebers ' " Holy, Holy, Holy " better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 600 pages
...oceans of sham philosophy. To read these last is wading through glue.' 'A good hymn,' he said, 'is the most difficult thing in the world to write. In a good...The moment you cease to be common-place, and put in an expression at all out of the common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns, I like Heber's " Holy, holy,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1897 - 1016 pages
...philosophy. To read these last is wading through glue." "A good hymn," hesaid, "is the most difficult thuig in the world to write. In a good hymn you have to...The moment you cease to be commonplace, and put in an expression at all out of the common, it ceases to be a hymn. Of hymns, I like Heber's 'Holy, holy,... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - Hymn writers - 1898 - 232 pages
...Magdalen College, to whom he mentioned this, said, " Will you write the hymn ? " Tennyson replied, " A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...at all out of the common it ceases to be a hymn." Here we have in a sentence the explanation of the fact which has often caused surprise, that so few... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 330 pages
...known, that drink, gambling, and horse-racing were nothing to it. Warren. Will you write the hymn? AT A good hymn is the most difficult thing in the world...Heber's* "Holy, Holy, Holy" better than most, it is in a fine metre too. What will people come to in a hundred years? do you think they will give up all... | |
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