"Nunc dimittis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his pen-knife, and scratched a deep line of erasure through the "Carpe diem" in his locket, and underneath, cutting with great pains, he inserted a date, "July 3, 1863," and the words "Nunc dimittis." Below that he cut "Te ...
— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris
... visible signs of a corresponding change within; but this was why the Friends fell off, and gravitated, as she confessed they were doing, to steeple-houses, water-dipping, and bread-and-wine-worship. She seemed to me like a quiet old Prophetess Anna chanting a "Nunc Dimittis" of her own on the passing away of her faith. She would be glad to depart before the glory had quite died out. She said she did not hope much from the Conference, and, to my amazement, rather gloried in the old ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... bloomed that year with unusual beauty, as if to welcome the young pair. Modeste sang 'Nunc Dimittis'. The least demonstrative of all those interested in the event ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... "Nunc dimittis!" said Mrs. Malcomson when she heard the story; "for the same thing has been said of the author of any book of consequence that has ever appeared." And naturally she was somewhat puffed up. But it remained for Mrs. Guthrie Brimston ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... sweet the while. There was a far-off priest, with gentle smile, Whose parting benediction seemed to pour Upon us, from the verge of some blest shore, To which our ling'ring steps he would beguile. An organ pealed from somewhere in the heights Above us, and a sweet-voiced chorus rang A "Nunc Dimittis," and from caverns sang In echo all the list'ning mountain wights. Uniting fervently in their "amen," We stood a moment in the dark'ning gray; In silence, as the knowing only may, And then, refreshed, turned ...
— Edward MacDowell • Elizabeth Fry Page |
