"Monitory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Old Man is greater than he seems: For he hath waking empire, wide as dreams; An ample sovereignty of eye and ear. Rich are his walks with supernatural chear; The region of his inner spirit teems With vital sounds, and monitory gleams Of high astonishment and pleasing fear. He the seven birds hath seen that never part, Seen the SEVEN WHISTLERS in their nightly rounds, And counted them: and oftentimes will start— For overhead are sweeping GABRIEL'S ...
— Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 2 • William Wordsworth
... of Doddridge's monitory hymns, once sung to J.C. Woodman's tune of "State St." with the voice of both the Old and New Testaments in the ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth |
