"Harpist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a homily for Pentecost (xxx in Ev.): "He," namely the Holy Ghost, "fills the boy harpist and makes him a Psalmist; He fills the herdsman plucking wild figs, and makes him a prophet." Therefore prophecy requires no previous disposition, but depends on the will alone of the Holy Ghost, of Whom it is written (1 Cor. 12:2): "All these things, one and ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... The last of the Roman musicians were either killed or became tramp-fiddlers going from city to city and playing in the street, and begging for pennies like the harpist on ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon |
