"Nunc dimittis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nunc Dimittis is dull and The Wandering Jew dreadful; but Procris is a beautiful poem. The richness and variety of its metaphors, the music of its lines, the fine opulence of its imagery, all seem to point to a new poet. Faults, it is true, there are ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... week days—two evening services, vespers and compline are said together, or rather one immediately after the other. Each consists of confession and absolution, a short Scriptural lesson, psalms, a canticle, a hymn and collects. The canticle for vespers is the Magnificat; for compline is the Nunc Dimittis. ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould |
