In Hewart's tables of Egyptian hieroglyphics we see a priest offering adoration to a serpent.
It is known that the public assemblies at Delphi were called Pythia, these were originally intended for the adoration of the Python.
Jaffery regarded her with the open-eyed adorationof a heathen Goth receiving the Gospel from Saint Ursula.
Doria remained blind, taking it for granted that every one should kiss the feet of her idol and in that act of adoration find august recompense.
She had grown up in the midst of the universal Meriton adoration of him as the most accomplished, the kindest, the merriest son of that soil, the child of promise, the present pride and the future glory of his native town.
If one woman teased him, occupying his thoughts without satisfying his desire, he turned to the adoration of another, and gave her of his own that hers might be more complete.
But her adoration of any one never lasts longer than a month or six weeks.
The central panel represents the Adoration of the Magi, that on the right the Nativity, and the other panel the Presentation.
In the Municipal Gallery there is an 'Adoration of the Magi' (No.
The canonization and adoration of the saints, too, are analogous to the worship of the inferior deities of ancient times.
To this imaginary being is rendered the same adoration that was rendered to him by primitive man--the adoration of childish ignorance.
The ancient adoration of Adonis survives in this modernadoration of Jesus.
The deification and worship of the Virgin had its origin in the worship of Isis, and the adoration of the Virgin and Child is but the adoration of Isis and Horus transferred to Mary and Jesus.
Thus writes a Carmelite nun describing the passionate adoration of her Christian sisters: "One day they have raised their eyes to an adorable face.
The genial Sun still warms and lights the earth, but centuries have flown since Mithra, his beloved, received the adoration of mankind.
Not only was the adoration of Isis under a new name restored, but even her image standing on the crescent moon reappeared.
His new adoration of his father was obvious to every one who saw them together.
Nor would I be understood to mean a wholesale and indiscriminate adoration of the Puritans as a sect.
His "Adoration of the Magi" will bear comparison with the masterpieces even of Italy and the Netherlands, and his Madonnas, though of German type, have a sweetness all their own.
After such a work as "The Adoration of the Lamb," at Ghent, no one could doubt either of their genius as artists or the future of the new mode in painting.
He had a tightening in his throat, for he had not expected love; and that sweet, benignant, humble little kiss spelled adoration and eternal surrender; when she looked at him again the mists of joy were in his eyes.
In Mr. Webster's own whimsical phraseology, his clock had been fixed, on the instant he recognized in the object of his youthful partner's adoration the same winsome woman he had enthroned in his own secret castle of love.
She was bending forward, smiling, flattering her escort with the adorationof her eyes.
She could not be blind to the mute adoration of his gaze; nor could she resent it.
What a Pother you make about the boiling of a Fowl, and flying in the Face of Nature, replied the Egyptian in a Pet; tho' we Egyptians pay divine Adoration to the Ox; yet we can make a hearty Meal of a Piece of roast Beef for all that.
And if you are so fond of paying your Adoration on Account of their vast Distance; why don't you adore the Land of the Gangarides, which lies in the utmost Extremities of the Earth.
The superior Wisdom of his Slave enlightned his Mind; and from that Hour he was less lavish than ever he had been, of his Incense to those created Beings, and for the future, paid his Adoration to the eternal God who made them.
What she most dreaded was to go there herself, and, she always refused to do so, knowing full well that she could not remain unrecognised, and fearful of meeting the crowds whose adoration awaited her.
And then all the voices, the thousands of voices, began the chant of adoration and gratitude.
He was a pale sturdy fellow with a round and carefully shaven face, stern eyes, and the powerful jaws of a man who compels the adoration of women by terrorising them.
Amidst this blast of frantic adoration Pierre gazed at Leo XIII, now again motionless on his throne.
And meantime the clamour grew, vivats and shrill cries of adoration arose amidst pushing and jostling of increased violence, one and all yielding to the irresistible desire to kiss the idol!
And if you knew how dearly loved she was, with what adoration she is still surrounded.
Day by day she suffered at being sought by none, at realising that the adoration of one and all still went to her mother.
They all three entered the chapel and went into the choir, where the doctor and the marquise knelt in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Thus Vaninka was left alone, with nothing but her father's blind adoration to direct her.
Bertrand himself felt an adoration for her surpassing ordinary human passion.
But simultaneously it occurred to him that one must be an angel to have such a delusion, and his adoration of his mother increased yet more.
Only they do not know that that adoration is not of a red color, but heavenly blue.
Silent adoration befits man best in the presence of his maker, only it is right to protest against the more degrading conceptions of him, although the higher conceptions are themselves far below what he really is.
This refusal to identify himself with any democratic movement rendered him very popular with the English Court, a popularity increased by England's adoration of exalted rank and princely fortune.
Offer worship quickly to Indra; recite hymns; let the outpoured drops exhilarate him; pay adoration to his superior strength!
It is the payment of a debt of worship, praise, and adoration due by the creature to the Creator.
I regret to report that Wigglesworth has conceived an adorationfor the doctor.
You have had an entire village at your beck and call; have dispensed justice and advice from your bed like Royalty; and you have thrived on it, my dear lady, thrived on the adoration and the sacrifice, and on your own martyrdom.
Dorothy remembered the looks akin to adorationthat Mrs. Green continually gave her daughter that day in the train.
Mankind never appear to me in a more despicable light than when I see them, by a simple as well as mean servility, voluntarily concurring in the adoration of riches, without the least benefit or prospect from them.
Ask the vain coquette what she For men's adoration would; Or from censure to be free, Ask the vile censorious prude.
Never did mortal man inspire such love andadoration in the hearts of his soldiers.
Their eyes met for one moment in a long and loving gaze of mutual affection, and tears filled the eyes of the beautiful Josephine as she glanced with undisguisedadoration upon the husband she so reverenced and worshipped.
The Adoration of the Shepherds," which was the greatest work of Van der Goes, is in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence.
Here is the fine "Adoration of the Magi," by Rubens, which many critics consider one of the four best of his ceremonial works.
Besides the "Adoration of the Lamb," the Cathedral of St. Bavon possesses enough other notable works of art to equip a small museum.
In 1794 these pictures were taken to Paris and the "Adoration of the Magi" was not restored to its original position until after the fall of Napoleon.
The Adorationof the Shepherds," by Erasmus Quellen, in the opposite arm of the transept, while less famous, is a noble piece of work.
The subject chosen by Hubert for the proposed altar-piece was the Adoration of the Lamb, and the artist, while true to the conventions of the age in which he lived, achieved a work that is still full of interest and charm.
