"Hosanna" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contrast, common in popular preaching, between the multitude crying "Hosanna" and the same multitude crying ...
— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ - A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion • James Stalker
... Fours? We are trying it; it is still all haze to me. Can the elder hand BEG more than once? The Port Admiral is at Boston mingling with millionaires. I am but a weed on Lethe wharf. The wife is only so-so. The Lord lead us all: if I can only get off the stage with clean hands, I shall sing Hosanna. 'Put' is described quite differently from your version in a book I have; what are your rules? The Port Admiral is using a game of put in a tale of his, the first copy of which was gloriously finished about a fortnight ago, ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... which he has experienced with equal vividness under his own system of Anthropomorphic Theism, are to him but as non-religious dross compared with the unspeakable felicity of holding definite commune with the Almighty and Most Merciful, or of rendering worship that is a glad hosanna—a fearless shout of joy. On the other hand, I believe that it is possible for philosophic habits of thought so to discipline the mind that the feelings of vague awe and silent worship in the presence of an appalling Mystery become more deep and steady ...
— A Candid Examination of Theism • George John Romanes
... by night. Now, the name of Bonaparte filled the island with acclamations. But Napoleon was alike indifferent to such unjust censure, and to such unthinking applause. As the curse did not depress, neither did the hosanna elate. ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte • John S. C. Abbott
... they remind us? A. Palms are blessed on Palm Sunday. They remind us of Our Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the people, wishing to honor Him and make Him king, strewed palm branches and even their own garments in His path, singing: Hosanna to the ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... he answered, "is beneath contempt. Those who had sung Hosanna to the Son of God three days later cried out Crucifige. Such things do not make my life any dearer to me. If I were told that I should live as long again as I have already done, and that without pain, without law-suits, ...
— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus
... vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountains tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round!" ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... personal conduct of the Patriarch. Silence being complete, the choir, invisible from the body of the nave, began its magnificent rendition of the Sanctus—"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest"—and during the singing, His Serenity was clothed for the rite. Over his cassock, the deacons placed the surplice of white linen, and over that again a stole stiff with gold embroidery. He then walked slowly ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... of the Mount of Olives, near the Bethany road. While we sat there one morning, a great noise of shouting was heard, and presently we saw one riding on an ass, followed by a great company, crying 'Hosanna!' As we drew nearer, we heard them say that it was Jesus of Nazareth; and, when we saw His face, we knew that it was He, by the wonderful eyes, though it was the face of a bearded man, and not of an infant, and was very pale and sad. As He drew near to our tent, the city came full ...
— Christmas Stories And Legends • Various
... impression that when any attempt failed, the perpetrators, instead of being punished, should have had the decoration of the Legion of Honour placed upon them by himself. They are also quite unconscious that they are backing a mean revenge and an awful mockery of freedom when they eloquently shout "Hosanna!" ...
— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman
... a sweet hosanna sung, And blest their Saviour's name; They gave him honour with their tongue ...
— Divine Songs • Isaac Watts
... He cometh, Who doth salvation bring; Lift up your heads rejoicing, And welcome Zion's King; With Hymns of joy we praise the Lord, Hosanna to th' Incarnate Word! ...
— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various
... half-mockingly at the stranger. But he went on: "All the church-bells ought to have been rung when the old woman said, 'Now I have drunk your cup of sorrow!' People should have rushed out of their houses to see what was happening—they should have cried, 'Hosanna!' Does no one understand the immeasurable depth of such poverty and goodness! I fell on my knees before the old woman, I kissed the tattered hem of her garments—and she ... spat in my face! Amen. And the meaning ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... I thought of the ancient time— The days of thy monks of old,— When to matin, and vesper, and compline chime, The loud Hosanna roll'd, And, thy courts and "long-drawn aisles" among, Swell'd the ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... was to be illuminated. Two hundred and fifty thousand candles were to proclaim the enthusiasm of the people. Two hundred and fifty thousand fiery tongues were to cry: "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the name of——" In whose name? Hosanna for whom? ...
— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli
... Volke sich losriss, Das zwar jetzt ihn verehrte, doch nicht mit jener Empfindung, Die untadelhaft bleibt vor dem schauenden Auge der Gottheit. 30 Jesus verbarg sich diesen Entweihten. Zwar lagen hier Palmen Vom begleitenden Volk; zwar klang dort ihr lautes Hosanna; Aber umsonst. Sie kannten ihn nicht, den Knig sie nennten, Und den Gesegneten Gottes zu sehn, war ihr Auge zu dunkel. Gott kam selbst von dem Himmel herab. Die gewaltige Stimme: 35 Sieh, ich hab' ihn verklrt, und will ihn von neuem verklren! War die Verkndigerin der gegenwrtigen Gottheit. ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... wond'ring awe, Tho wise men saw The star in Heaven springing, And with delight In peaceful night, They heard the angels singing, Hosanna, Hosanna Hosanna to ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various
... John leaders in song when "at the descent at the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God," and especially when "the City of David" came into view? The joyful strains were from the Psalms of David—"Hosanna to the Son of David, Hosanna in the Highest Blessed is the kingdom that cometh, the kingdom of our Father David. Blessed is the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in ...
— A Life of St. John for the Young • George Ludington Weed
... very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches; from the trees, and strewed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna ...
— The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete • Anonymous
... we have a large number of proper names from Adam and Eve down to John and Mary and such words as Messiah, rabbi, hallelujah, cherub, seraph, hosanna, manna, ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin
... travelled with our wives; and that we could keep our Merry Christmas here. If only Wolfgang and Dick and their wives would join us, all would be well. (Wolfgang's wife was named Bertha, and Dick's was named Hosanna,—a name I have never ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale
... From all sides flocked crowds eager to welcome the King, and even more the Maid of Orleans. In those days the people's cry of joy and triumph was 'Noel!'—but why that cry of Christmas joy had become the popular hosanna, it is not ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
... No sooner had th' Almighty ceas't, but all The multitude of Angels with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy, Heav'n rung With Jubilee, and loud Hosanna's fill'd Th' eternal Regions: lowly reverent Towards either Throne they bow, & to the ground 350 With solemn adoration down they cast Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold, Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life Began to bloom, but soon for mans offence ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... a glad hosanna For every woe and wail, A handful of sweet manna When grapes of Eschol fail; I've found a Rock of Ages When desert wells were dry; And, after weary stages, I've found an ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... as the centre-point and pivot on which the history of the world, so to speak, revolves; all that was before converging to Him, all that was after flowing down from Him. 'They that went before, and they that followed after, cried, Hosanna! blessed be He that cometh in ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... revolves. You can only remain at the summit by its standing still. It is not your degradation, but another's glory, that is sought. Open your eyes to the scheme: look adown its vistas of grandeur, and at every step taken above you, you will sing, Hosanna! We also rise ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... lilac, and Leonardo's Cartoon in the Diploma Gallery. All were equal manifestations of that energy in flower known as 'Life.' They knew that everything they saw and felt and smelled OUGHT equally to make them long to catch creatures to their hearts and cry: Hosanna! And Nedda and Alan, bred in Hampstead, even knew that to admit that these things did not all move them in the same way would be regarded as a sign of anaemia. Nevertheless—most queerly—these four young people confessed to each other all sorts ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy |
