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...Prince Polignac called, in its style, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no... ...tyle, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no surface on the rock side large ... ...no buildings on its sides. But on its very point has been erected a church sacred to St. Michael, that lover of rock summits, accessible by stairs cut...

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...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ...ntic, uncomfortable, and prosaic of towns. If one had a right to break the sacred confidence of the mahogany, I could entertain you with many queer st... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita... ...d fro, swaying about, and singing through his nose choice phrases from the sacred work. But from the room above came a clear noise of many little shou... ...ntering for prayer, or squatted on the benches, chanting passages from the sacred volume. Chris- tians, I believe, are not admitted, but may look thro... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ...

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...man. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest prom- is... ... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ... ...ntal treachery to his Swiss guard on that memorable 10th of August, when he allowed those heroes to be massacred in his cause, and forbade them to she... ... a marvel, it is a miracle. Some of the effects are very daring, approaching even to the boldest flights of the rococo, the sirocco, and Mark Twain 2... ...Six thousand!” “Huzza!” “Seven thousand!” “Huzza!” “Eight thousand!” “We are saved, father! I told you the Holy Virgin would keep her word!” “Blessed ...

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...s! Oh hush! He wouldn’t tell you—” “He couldn’t tell you.” “Religion is so sacred to him he never talks about it, never reads about it, never thinks a... ...work, so to speak, were at times as dread- ful as—well, War Office barrack architecture. A caricature by its exaggerated statements will sometimes ser... ...e hold of its tether.” Lewis was shocked. A “mandate” from the Country was sacred to his system of pretences. 208 The New Machiavelli Britten wasn’t ... ... men, and relax their minds in the discussion of the morning paper, of the architecture of the West End, and of the latest public appointments, of gol... ...of all my reasoning and all that had been said by others in the debate—the sacred empty phrases that were his soul’s refuge from reality. “You may thi... ...aotic forces. “There is no clear right in the world any more. The world is Byzantine. The justest man to-day must practise a tainted goodness.” These ...

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...d by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government of Leon... ... I HAVE MENTIONED the church of Saint Martin, which was for many years the sacred spot, the shrine of pilgrimage, of Tours. Originally the simple buri... ...s of Tours; for the town contains several goodly specimens of the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon wil... ...e place is a restoration as well as a ruin, inasmuch as the sisters of the Sacred Heart have erected a terribly modern convent here. A large Gothic do... ... the latest taste, enables you conveniently to explore its recesses. These sacred niches are scooped out of the rock, and will give you an impres- sio... ... wing, taken by itself, has much of the bel air which was to belong to the architecture of Louis XIV.; but, taken in contrast to its flowering, laughi... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th...

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...ries continued to lave, as with the quiet undulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely... ...ulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that... ...llied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. In reality, some parts of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or... ...e the strength of the original impulse given to the feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne. How po- tent must that splendor have be... ... the deposi- tary of this charmed power, should have been looked upon as a sacred person, and the imperial family considered a “divina domus.” It is a... ... silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of the gold... ...same breeding, finally re-estab- lished itself with undisputed sway in the Byzantine court. Meantime the institutions of Dioclesian, if they had de- s...

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...e chosen Moses in Egypt for special study, doubtless because the spirit of sacred music finds therein its supreme expression. Perhaps the soul of the ... ... expression, but the agreement of things among themselves—unity, in short? Architecture, music, and poetry, everything in France, and in France more t... ...d, they grew less amenable to disci- pline; and as in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, every- one wished to be emperor. They mistook their unifo... ...man so cavalierly treated in his thoughts of yester- day had become a most sacred and dreadful power. She was to be his world, his life, from this tim...

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...which should have lasted forever; tainted thus with fear was that farewell sacred to love and grief, to perfect love and to grief that could not be he... ...ese, though condemned on some grounds by the restorers of authentic church architecture, have, nev- 40 Thomas de Quincey ertheless, this one advantag... ...unning helter skelter into heresy—and all in consequence of your majesty’s sacred laziness.” Our governments were less remissly administered; since ea... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...uspicion, simply because it lay through a succession of temples and sewers sacred to the goddesses Cloacina and Scavengerina. That of itself was not s... ...aerial succession: so, and by similar steps, she achieves a char- acter of architecture justifying, as it were, the very promise of her name; and with... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

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...n the theme of home. ‘There is one picture I like above all, but that is a sacred subject, so no wonder it should have that feeling in it.’ ‘What is i... ...that girl sending him on her messages! John, who is treated like something sacred by my father and mother themselves! Those damp Rickworth meadows! Ho... ...retto. She went along with them in the researches for Greek in- scription, Byzantine carving, or Frank fortress; she shared the exultation of decipher... ...ter. Wrangerton is a most forlorn place, an old den of the worst period of architecture, set down just beyond the pretty country, but in the programme... ...more articles to benighted editors on their last legs. I can finish off my Byzantine his- tory, and coin it into bezants.’ ‘ And these were your hard-... ... either nursing Arthur, play- ing with the children, or bringing sheets of Byzantine his- tory for revision; and he was much slower in looking over Th... ...ng Cupid, and surrounded by a bewildering variety of subjects, profane and sacred, profanely treated. She could not help feeling that there was a foll...

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...unding in old castles and villas, Vicenza is a rich mu- seum of Palladio’s architecture and Bassano is full of irre- placeable painted buildings—one f... ...han the submarines’. My food, my coal, my petrol are all restricted in the sacred name of private property. You see, capital in England has hitherto b... ... place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I came out of the brightly lit Gall... ...one for the 113 H G Wells unbaptised Constantine in the midst of its most sacred de- liberations at Nicaea. But it seems to me that this abandon- men... ...erty owners and influential people in Europe to-day no more believe in the sacred right of property to hold up development and dictate terms than do t...

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...iet life: Fuge, late, tace. I am off.” “But I am not off till you pay me a sacred debt—that little supper, you know, heh?” said Blondet, who was rathe... ... francs for ten columns of fun.” “Bixiou,” said Blondet, “an Amphitryon is sacred for twenty-four hours before a feast and twelve hours after. Our ill... ...e was then living, who was so kind as to give them up to me. I swear on my sacred word—” “You must not swear.” “Is it swearing to give your sacred wor... ...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...d of light or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque—the three phases of ancient art—were harm... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of... ...the like. The first two archways on that side of the yard, facing the fine Byzantine corridor—the only vestige now of Saint-Louis’ elegant palace—form...

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...and philoso- phy; a very complete form. Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, lim- ited to the straight l... ...b- lime. As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian cour... ...from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italo- mania of Boston Bay. Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined, or ... ...ircumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own. To the sacred history of the world he has the same key. When the voice of a prophe... ...name of goodness, but must explore if it be good- ness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you... ...tals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk, and wool; honors himself with architecture; writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the ha... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ...

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...glin’ towards the light o’ freedom, I say to you, Rub noses with us in our sacred an’ holy cause. The power is yourn. Without you, I say, Man the Oppr... ...ndure a strain which is entirely without parallel in the records of marine architecture.” 64 Rudyard Kipling The Steam turned a laugh quickly into a ... ...Phee liked that pamphlet enormously, for it was com- posed in the Bouverie-Byzantine style, with baroque and ro- coco embellishments; and afterwards h... ...of dried lichis, and a glass plate of preserved ginger, and a small jar of sacred and Imperial chow-chow that perfumed the room. McPhee gets it from a... ...e day. I told ‘em—I’ve told hem about fifty times—I stopped their holy and sacred train be- cause I wanted to board her. Did they think I wanted to fe...

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...as arranged in chronological order), 1861, 2nd ed., 1876; by E. H. Palmer (Sacred Books of the East, vols. vi., ix.). SELECTIONS: Chiefly from Sale’s ... ...uction and explanatory notes (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Religion of the Koran, select... ...ves his scrupulous honesty as a compiler, as well as his reverence for the sacred text, and to a certain extent guar- antees the genuineness and authe... ...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t... ...es, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting li...