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Sternhold (Thomas)

versified fifty-one of the Psalms. The remainder were the productions of Hopkins and some others. Sternhold and Hopkinsʹ Psalms used to be attached to the Common Prayer Book.

“Mistaken choirs refuse the solemn strain

Of ancient Sternhold.”

Crabbe: Borough.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sternhold, Thomas