What in myself I am, that let me prove; Relent not for my feeble prayer, nor dim The burning of thine altar for my hymn.
THE ALTAR Some take comfort from a star, Thro' the slow grey surge of Time, Some take joy from ruddy war, Lust of conflict, heat of crime.
I will take a happy word, Open heart and hand for play, And a song which none have heard For my altar of the day.
Even in the Book of Armagh we find that Patrick shewed to his presbyter a wonderful stone altar on a mountain in this region.
On either side of the altar there is a door, as in our reredos at St. Paul's.
Besides these shrines in the apse, behind the reredos, there is shewn immediately above the altar itself a prominent shrine, marked Scs.
The altar is shewn as deeply recessed into a structural reredos.
In honour of the month of Mary, a very grand Madonna, dressed as usual in sky blue, and surrounded by an arch of silver tinsel and white artificial roses, was placed in front of the altar for the contemplation of the faithful.
An altar was erected, hung with festoons of flowers, and upon this altar was placed the full-length portrait of M.
Napoleon never loved the Revolution, and he most thoroughly detested the infamous and sanguinary despotism which had risen upon the ruins of the altar and the throne.
Josephine then knelt upon an altar at his feet, and was again crowned by her husband.
And the Hermit's heart melted, for he thought of his little sister lying with her throat slit across the altar steps, and of the scenes of blood and rapine from which he had fled away into the wilderness.
However this may be, we know that she had several love romances; and that one at least nearly led to the altar while Jean was still a "wee bit lassie.
Five years before Miss O'Neill's Juliet came to captivate London, another idol of the stage was led to the altar by William, first Earl of Craven.
And in love he was as precocious as at the Royal Court and in mental and manly accomplishments, for at eighteen we find him standing at the altar in the King's Palace at Sheen, near Richmond, with his youthful Sovereign as best man.
To such a pitch indeed did this popular idolatry reach that she was actually painted as a Madonna to grace the altar of the richest convent in France.
She had carried her virtue unstained to thealtar and a Duchess's coronet, and this seems to have been the main concern of the beautiful prude.
Three weeks before Maria Gunning blossomed into a Countess her younger sister Betty had been led to the altar under much more romantic conditions, after one of the most rapid and impetuous wooings in the annals of Love.
Even so did I once see the young shoot of a date palm springing up near the altar of Apollo on Delos.
The altar was without adornment, and, as well as the walls and ceilings, was shrouded in the deepest mourning.
The outward ill the tempted wight may do or leave undone; But when I to the altar go, to eat the sacred bread And gaze upon the blood divine, that for us all was shed, Still Satan stirreth up in me a heart of unbelief!
Dost call it Christian duty and reverence to mother church to kidnap the servants of the altar and put them to the rack as thy people have done?
Not knowing but that it was true that her hopes for further advancement must be resigned, she laid them on the altar of her faith, willing to yield up her future entirely to the will and care of her Creator.
On one side she read the English words: "Of your charity pray for the soul of Flora Duchess of Norfolk who put up this altar to the Mother of Sorrows that they who mourn may be comforted.
Inquiries from Marthe showed that he must have entered the flat at the moment when she was kneeling at the altar and when the Lady of VII Dolours had miraculously granted to her pardon and peace.
The whole top is ribbed with stone, serrated with ornate crockets, crowded with bosses and small spires, or edged with a double balustrade mimicking in its flame-points a thousand altar lights.
Before the fair highaltar hangs the victorious banner of Ferdinand VII.
A curious relic on the Chapel Royal altar is the Battle Virgin, a small ivory image which King Ferdinand the Sainted always carried in war firmly fixed on his saddle-bow.
At Athens there was an altar to Compassion in the Agora, as we know from Pausanias, I.
The Athenians have an altar in their Agora to Compassion; for this deity, they believe, is of all the gods the most helpful in human life, and its vicissitudes.
Lucian also mentions this altar in the Timon, § 99.
You would go with me to the altar hand in hand, beyond the altar to death itself—— BESS.
As the first tablet is unfortunately still missing, we cannot judge how far it may have answered to the name of the first month--"the Altar of Bel.
He came out of the ship with his wife, daughter and pilot, built an altar and sacrificed to the gods, after which he disappeared together with these.
I raised an altar on the highest summit of the mountain, placed the sacred vessels on it seven by seven, and spread reeds, cedar-wood and sweet herbs under them.
But Izdubar called together his people and bade them lift up the body and carry it to the altar of Shamash and lay it before the god.
It resembled an altar in form, and, from the word "Artemidoron" appeared to have belonged to some temple to Diana.
Fra Carlo, the good Franciscan who receives strangers, showed us the building, and the Grotto of Elijah, which is under the altar of the Convent Church, a small but very handsome structure of Italian marble.
I cannot say how long a period elapsed, after I left this pleasant family, before the family-altar was erected, but I believe not a very long period.
Upon the main altar lie the remains of the man who first introduced oxen into Mexico, and who for many years was the means of passage and communication between Mexico and Vera Cruz.
In another church near here, also erected at the command of Cortes, is a black velvetaltar cloth, with saints embroidered in gold all over it.
The Indians found one and placed it on the altar of the church to serve as a consecration stone.
The emblematical figure of “Justice,” blind, and with her attributes of sword and scales, has her altar deserted.
We mourn for those who sleep beneath the wave, Or on the land have found a soldier's grave; Each heart will be an altarto their fame, And ever sacred kept each glorious name.
The insistence on the unique efficacy of the sacrifice of the altar led to the multiplication of masses, and so of altars, which were placed in the transepts or aisles or in chapels, dedicated to the saints whose relics they enshrined.
In the early Christian Church the ciborium was a canopy over the altar (q.
By a true instinct the early Christian writers called widows and orphans the altar of God on which the sacrifices of almsgiving are offered up.
Finally, for the convenience of processions, the nave and chancel aisles were carried round behind the high altar as ambulatories.
In the Eastern Church the columns rested on the altar itself, in the Western they reached the ground.
The person who never heard of Christ's teaching till yesterday may have so caught the fire of Truth that to-day he stands at the altar a priest instead of communicant, a teacher instead of pupil.
But in the secrecy of thought, Our silent souls may pray; Or round the household altar brought, Begin and close the day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "altar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: altar; altarpiece; credence; frontal; retable
