Cold is that heart in which were met More virtues than could ever die; The morning star of hope is set-- The sun adorns another sky.
In the palace of Niccolò da Uzzano might be seen the antique porphyry lion which Lorenzo greatly admired,[190] and which still adorns the staircase of the house.
Much of what now adornsthe great Uffizi collection came to Florence in those days.
Delicate tracery such as adorns the west front of the church of Vendôme, a lace-work of beautiful sculpture representing trailing roses and vines, birds and reptiles, was ruthlessly hacked.
A Roman column still adorns the north side of it, but its corresponding one on the south side has long been destroyed.
Whoever enriches and adorns the smallest spot, lives not in vain.
He adorns all with a severe sententious beauty, a freshness and sanction next to that of godliness, if not that in spirit and effect.
You would say that she has been infected by the pitiful worldly wisdom of her scheming mother, and that I am nothing more to her than the ornament with which she adorns herself for another suitor.
Education lifts an obscure man on to a level with nobles, but also adorns him who is of noble birth.
This surely must be the Esmeralda who lives in these mountains, and adorns low life by her virgin purity and sentiment.
It proves that a sincere love, even in an unclean and depraved soul, purges it, and adorns it with meritorious charms and real worth in that relation.
The envious waves forbid the trace to stay: Honora's name again adorns the strand, Again the waters bear their prize away!
Beauty: That generous Air that adorns all your lovely Person, and renders every Motion and Action perfectly adorable.
He decorates his lair with the skins of his victims; he adorns his person with the spoils of those whom he devours.
Like the figure on a clock, which adorns the case and has no connection with the movement, he, so prominent an ornament to time, had no part in its works.
That modesty which highly adorns a woman, she possesses.
It is applied both to persons and things; as, "He that acts wisely, deserves praise; Modesty is a quality that highly adorns a woman.
He adorns and dignifies his subject to the utmost: he surrounds it with every possible association of beauty or grandeur, whether moral, intellectual, or physical.
The pathos of the one tells home and for itself; the other adorns his sentiments with some image of tender or awful beauty.
Oh, how the bridegroom exults, when he adorns his betrothed!
Local antiquaries even identify the knight with Don Rodrigo de Pacheco, whose portrait adorns the parish church; and the same authorities hold that part of the romance was written while Cervantes was a prisoner in their town.
For thee I sit amidst a crowd of painted deities on my chariot, buttoned in gold, clasped in gold, without having any value for that beloved metal, but as it adorns the person, and laces the hat of thy dying lover.
Even the later glass which adorns the nave and transepts and which we will discuss farther on, is so unusually strong in colour that we avoid that sharpness of contrast between thirteenth and fifteenth century work to be seen at Bourges.
The finest window is undoubtedly that which adorns the south transept and shows Religion overcoming Heresy.
In the transepts are two magnificent wheel windows full of good glass, indeed I know of no better scheme of colour than that whichadorns this window on the south side.
When Moissac was affiliated with Cluny and reformed, its church was rebuilt by Abbot Durand, whose image adorns a pier of the cloister's east gallery.
The ermine of Anne of Brittany adorns the lintel of Folgoët, to which she added a tower, after her visit in 1505.
His marble bust adorns a pier of the choir of Auxerre Cathedral.
We need no Edward's fortune to adorn That happy moment when our prince was born: Our prince adorns his day, and ages hence Shall wish his birth-day for some future prince.
Thronging and busy as Hyblaean swarms, Or straggled soldiers summon'd to their arms, See where the princely bark in loosest pride, With all her guardian fleet, adorns the tide!
Eight quadruple rows of dots divide it into nine compartments, in each of which there are two large dots; and an uninterrupted row of dots adorns the whole edge.
I discovered it in the depths of the temple of Apollo, and it now adorns my garden at Athens.
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