Anyhow the preparations for the nuptial day, and the pageants which accompanied it, drew off the thoughts of all from the terrible event of Christmas.
Banquets, ballets and pageants succeeded one another in rapid succession.
The pageants themselves are fully described in Hall.
The very pageants ostensibly raised in her honour contrived in several cases to embody a subtle insult.
Connecting the Porta Romana with the heart of the city, the bridge has witnessed most of the great pageants and processions in Florentine history.
Splendid pageants and processions hailed the Calends of May and the Nativity of the Baptist, and marked the civil and ecclesiastical festivities and state solemnities.
Attempts were made to revive the May-day pageants of brighter days--but they only resulted in a horrible disaster on the Ponte alla Carraia, of which more presently.
These pageants consisted of paintings on rolls of cloth, with inscriptions in verse, descriptive of the scenical objects.
The conception of these pageants reminds one of the allegorical "Trionfi" of Petrarch; but they are not borrowed from the Italian poet.
Versailles, surpassed them in picturesque elegance; they were rather the ideal festivities of an artist than the gorgeous pageants of an Arabian caliph.
The waves a masque of martial pageants yield, A flying army on a floating field.
One incident lights the faded and insipid record of vanished pageants and defunct gallantries.
After the trouble of demobilization came peacepageants and celebrations and flag-wavings.
It was like one of those pageants which used to be played in England before the war--picturesque, romantic, utterly unreal.
Pageants of kingship and royal death had passed across these pavements through the great doors there.
To any feelings less exalted, to any hope less fervent than theirs, it would have been the most intolerable aggravation to die amid pagan pageants and brutal idleness, insulted by bacchanalia of revelry and sanguinary pomp.
Hundreds of them were crowded in cells under the amphitheatre, and were informed that they were to appear in a series of pageants representing the torments of the dead.
Queen Mary were both a good deal at Hampton Court, it was not until the reign of Queen Elizabeth that it was again the scene of such pageants as had been of constant occurrence {301} during the reign of their father.
The seasonal pageants march to the statue's feet, scattering flowers.
Action Films might be called the red section; Intimate Motion Pictures, being colder and quieter, might be called blue; and Splendor Photoplays called yellow, since that is the hue of pageants and sunshine.
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps" and "They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps"--for these are given symbolic pageants of the Holy Sepulchre crusaders.
I will give a few details, at the hazard of appearing trivial to those who may think we have dwelt long enough on the pageants of the courts of Castile and Burgundy.
But such pageants form part of the natural accompaniment of a picturesque age, and the illustrations they afford of the manners of the time may have an interest for the student of history.
To the last writer I am especially indebted for several particulars in the account of processions and pageants which occupies the preceding pages.
Amid the brilliant pageants which occupied the public eye, secret conferences were daily carried on between Catherine and the duke of Alva.
For the particulars relating to the wedding, I am chiefly indebted to Florez, who was as minute in his account of court pageants as any master of ceremonies.
School plays and pageantscould be improved many hundred percent if the knowledge of color and its application were made more general.
They belong to the period of windy palaces and enormous enclosures, and are fitted for pageants and ceremonies, and not to our carefully plastered, wind-tight and narrow rooms.
These chambers were really theatrical guilds, composed almost entirely of artisans, and they not only produced plays and recited original poetry but also arranged pageants and musical festivals.
The center of the floor remained clear, and here the tableaux and pageants representing the various stages in the history of lace were performed.
For some time pageants and popular displays were the order of the day.
It was also much for the solace & recreation of the common people by reason of the pageants and shewes.
But first we will speake somewhat of the playing places, and prouisions which were made for their pageants & pomps representatiue before remembred.
These people so dearly love the pomp and glitter of fine pageants that the simplicity of our republican nation could not be endured.
With all, she would appear to have been an austere woman, caring little for dress or the pageants of the Court and much for power.
It did not succeed in freeing itself from classical imitation on the one hand, or on the other from the hampering adjuncts of Court-pageants and costly entertainments.
For the majority of the audience the dances and the pageants formed the chief attraction.
Three pageants were to be set up, one in Leadenhall and the others at the Standard and the little Conduit in Cheapside.
January following, as well as for defraying the costs of pageants on the occasion.
Thence the royal cavalcade passed through Southwark to the city, where pageants appeared at every turn.
Among those appointed to devise pageants for the occasion and to act as masters of the ceremony was Richard Grafton, the printer.
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