You must have for years attended to what is taught from the pulpit and the desk, and, alongside of that, you must have made a sobering and solemnising application of it all to your own heart.
"Bunyan Characters First Series"
Alexander Whyte
That which, from Homer to Shakespeare, has conquered the suffrages of the world, is solemnising and saddening, rather than tear-compelling.
"The Age of Tennyson"
Hugh Walker