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Letter "H" » harping
«In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.»
Author: Alexander Smith
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Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
dismal,
harp,
harper,
harpers,
harping,
lines,
pined,
pines,
pining,
rain down,
slant,
slanted,
slanting,
smites,
smiting,
smote,
thunder
«They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves»
«I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a»
«My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.»
«And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: / And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.»
«And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8)»
Author: Bible
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About:
Religion
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Keywords:
beasts,
elders,
fell,
harping,
harps,
lamb,
one of them,
prayers,
prayer book,
Revelations,
saints,
the book,
The Lamb,
vials
«Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp»
«Talk health. The dreary, never-changing taleOf mortal maladies is worn and stale.You cannot charm, or interest, or pleaseBy harping on that minor chord, disease.»
«Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
class,
dignity,
eloquent,
exercise,
harp,
harping,
idle,
importance,
preaches,
thrift
«Harp not on that string.»