It was out of such an attitude of mind that there grew up in pagan nations the desire to knock at the gate of the Mysteries.
We are told that in these straits, the Romans longing to find a barrier to such a flood of woes, sacrificed a bull with all the pagan ceremonies to the divinities of the ancient Republic.
This was the origin of those pagan saturnalia which survive in our times under the name of Casaccie.
The essential theme of the Oxford Conference, as was stated in the first announcement of it, was: "The life and death struggle between the Christian faith and the secular and pagan tendencies of our time.
The protest of the Church was fundamentally directed against those pagan and mythological elements that had crept into Christianity itself in the course of its historical development among the heathen.
Let this pagan empire be partitioned among Christian powers, and may a new order of things open on China with a new century!
Oh, pagan gods and goddesses and fauns and fairies, tell me why?
I called you to look at her as she recovered consciousness and lay on her bed like a sleeping figure of the loveliest of pagan goddesses!
At the feet of the eight slender pillars which support the canopy are all sorts of strange figures and creatures suggestive of the world of pagan mythology, gods of the forest and of the sea, nymphs of the water and the wood.
But with us he not only becomes an epicure beyond the wildest dreams of the pagan world, but a reckless destroyer--a small Attila with a pair of brown wings.
She was glad that a kind of pagan recklessness, of indifference to far-off consequences, mingled with the tide of her courage and reviving happiness.
I'd rather find a pagan than a Puritan at Green Gardens any day.
The Roman dominion had first brought law and order to Western Europe, and the Latin Church had restored it; but under both Pagan and Catholic Rome curiosity and innovation were subordinate to and restrained by organization.
The pagan Emperor was above all things a pedant and a doctrinaire.
Eudocia envied, it would seem, the divine honours of the pagan emperors; and the dedication of her statue in September 403 was made the occasion of blasphemous and licentious revelry.
Some commentator on Shakspeare has traced it back "to a pagan custom of the same kind during the Lupercalia feasts of Pan and Juno, celebrated in the month of February by the Romans.
We are further told that, the anniversary of St. Valentine happening in this month, the pious promoters of Christianity placed this custom under his patronage in order to indicate the notion of its pagan origin.
No doubt the temple existed, for the remains of it have been traced in later times, but it was Pagan and not Jewish, and was dedicated, as Dr.
The scene of fierce war and angry passions, of conquest and oppression, of barbaric rudeness and pagan splendour, is now a desolate and deserted waste, where the frail creations of man are blended with the ever-enduring works of God.
It had been raised during the latter of the sixteenth century by Vignola, when, under the influence of the great Pagan revival, the Christian church began to assume the character of an Olympian temple.
Behind us is the support of our pagan allies and the Christian mountaineers; what can defeat us?
Christian folk would choose their pagan oppressors before a ruler of their own faith?
I have swept the pagan Saracens into the sea I will cleanse the household of my kingdom,--from duke to deacon!
Majesty, and they give their full voice for war against the pagan Saracens.
Look to the South,--that same pagan horde, winners and still fast holders of nine parts of the Christian Goth realm.
They are Saracen counts, the pagan allies of our Most Christian King," answered Hardrat, and he smiled ironically.
Is this a symbol of the Holy Spirit's gifts, or is it some quaint relic of Pagan sparsiones?
Certainly nothing strikes one more in reading Scandinavian poetry, than the strange mixture of Pagan and Christian sentiments which it presents.
It could scarcely have been by accident, or by mere admiration for the features of Antinous, that Raphael, in his marble, blent the Christian and the Pagan traditions.
There is more than the mere hatred of a Pagan hero, more than the bare indignation at a public scandal, in their acrimony.
Upon the façade are mingled, in the true Renaissance spirit of genial acceptance, motives Christian and Pagan with supreme impartiality.
The pagan qualities of prudence, magnanimity, and courage give stability and greatness to good government, while the spirit of Christianity must harmonise and rule the whole.
It follows from these differences between the religious aims of Pagan and Christian architecture, that the former was far more favourable to the plastic arts.
He remained a truly mediæval carver, animated with a Christian instead of a Pagan spirit, but caring for the loveliness of form which art in the dark ages failed to realise.
We can discern in this response an echo of the faith which endeared Antinous to his Pagan votaries.
Nor is it impossible that the great vogue of his worship was due among the Pagan laity to this same fascination of pure beauty.
Cellini's Memoirs, written in the height of pagan Renaissance, well express the aversion which a Florentine or Roman felt for the inhospitable wildernesses of Switzerland.
When I was in the theological seminary I had a very clear idea of the difference betweenPagan Rome and Christian Rome.
Suppose the pagan Maxentius had triumphed over Constantine, what difference would it have made in the picture?
Why should we leave a land illuminated with the blaze of gospel light, for one enshrouded in pagan gloom?
She called upon the goddess of beauty, the pagan goddess of the love that was not spiritual.
For I don't think I'm really a bit of a pagan; I don't think I see much joy in the pagan life, that is so much cracked up by some people.
Secondly, the symbolical--Pagan or Christian, religious or historical, including the Heraldic.
The great veils which divided the pagan and Jewish temples were at first adopted in the Christian churches, but they gradually disappeared from common use, in spite of occasional survivals and revivals during the Dark Ages.
There was found in a grave-mound at Hof, in Norway, a brooch, showing at a glance that it was Christian and Celtic, though taken from the grave of a pagan Viking.
Christian Rome adopted the traditions of Pagan decoration, and introduced them in her worship, processions, and shows.
These symbols had many of them a distant source, and had been, as I have already indicated, emblematic of other inner meanings in the expression of pagan faiths.
Our conception of this tremendous and universal human passion has been altogether narrowed by the current idea that Pagan religious art consisted only, or chiefly, in giving personality to the gods.
The adventures of Brandenburg in contest withPagan Prussia, irritated, rather than amended, by St. Adalbert.
Some, when the resinous torch of burning wood Flares in lost pagan caverns dark and deep, Call thee to quench the fever in their blood, Bacchus, who singest old remorse to sleep!
The life of Apollonius was a Pagan plagiarism of the life of Jesus.
Reville's Pagan Christ is quite a misrepresentation of the subject, and Newman's treatment of the matter renders his treatise an anachronism for the twentieth century.
Apollonius the Pagan Christ of the Third Century (London; 1866), tr.
