Ein’ feste Burg,” though the trust in God they express and the unshaken faith of their childlike language is far removed from any presumptuous reliance on private judgment in religious matters or subjective revelations.
Most characteristic of all in this respect is the rousing hymn “Ein’ feste Burg.
On Sunday the work ceased for half an hour, and the Prince preached on faith and God's friendship for David, and afterwards they all sang: "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," they chanted in deep, strong tones, with an immense moral uplifting.
Writing of the lyrics sung by Feste in Twelfth Night, he says: "Though there is a whimsical point about them, they are not inelegantly written.
We happened by good luck to be there during one of the great feste of the year, and saw I am afraid to say how many thousands of pilgrims go up and down.
Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts Luther's chorale, Ein' feste Burg.
Whittier heard of the expulsion of the Hutchinsons, and as if inspired by a spirit divine, wrote the "EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT.
A West African missionary, Christaller, relates how he once sang "Ein feste Burg" to his native interpreter.
Thomas Carlyle's estimate of "Ein feste Burg" seems to accord with that of the African native.
Then followed Luther's "Ein feste Burg," after which the terrible strain seemed relieved, and they laid themselves down to peaceful slumber.
I intend shortly to send you a minuet that Herr Pick danced on the stage, and which every one in Milan was dancing at the feste di ballo, only that you may see by it how slowly people dance.
I think we have been at least six or seven times at the opera and the feste di ballo, which, as in Vienna, begin after the opera, but with this difference, that at Vienna the dancing is more orderly.
Peculiarly is thistrue of the great song Ein' feste Burg, which Heine not vainly predicted would again be heard in Europe in like manner as of old.
Bach composed his cantata, 'Ein' feste Burg,' for the occasion.
To feste hem al he did his diligence, And wel he couth, right as it semed me.
The nixt feste was the 8 of Septembre, Nativité de nostre Dame.
To returne, tho this day was the festeof the marchands, yet I observed they used not the ceremomy before specified, looking on it as dishonorable and below them.
On the day after Toussaint is a festetil noon called les Trespassez[230].
The reasons given by August Mommsen for rejecting that explanation betray an imperfect acquaintance with popular superstition (Feste der Stadt Athen im Altertum, Leipsic, 1898, p.
That qwene Anne purchased of the pope that the feste of Seynte Anne scholde be solenniysed in Ynglonde.
Wrytyn atte Framyngham the Fryday next to fore the feste of Simon and Jude.
Duc of Norffolk alle the tyme that he was sergeaunt bifore the same feste of Michelmesse.
Thenn the offesers of the feste, fulle evylle a-schamyd, informyd the maysters of the feste of thys mysse-happe that ys be-falle.
And at denyr time he come to the feste with his offecers, agreyng and acordyng unto hys degre.
His servants told him that the person who had sung the song was Feste the jester, who had been in the service of the Countess Olivia’s father, and, as he was still about the house, Orsino ordered him to be fetched.
Feste began singing one of his songs, as if he had just come near, and Malvolio, recognising it, called piteously to him for help.
Feste was a privileged person, and, like all fools or Court jesters in those days, was allowed to speak his mind much more freely than ordinary mortals; even the stately Countess herself did not escape his sharp speeches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feste" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
