Here in its temple the kings were crowned, and in its palaces they passed the greater part of their lives, and here in its valley of sepulchres they were laid to rest when their reigns and lives were ended.
Pétrie thinks that the temples and palaces were systematically destroyed by Harmhabî, and the ruins used by him in the buildings which he erected at different places in Egypt.
The streets were unfrequented, the palaces and temples stood empty, the tombs remained unfinished and unoccupied, and its patron god returned to his former state, and was relegated to the third or fourth rank in the Egyptian Pantheon.
All this I seemed to share with him as I tracked his career from his birthplace in Dorchester, and the house in Walnut Street where he passed his boyhood, to the palaces of Vienna and London.
Ilium" for the smile of Helen, and fired the palaces of Babylon by the hand of Thais, but the beauty which springs up in all times and places, and carries a torch and wears a serpent for a wreath as truly as any of the Eumenides.
Somebody buys all the quack medicines that build palaces for the mushroom, say rather, the toadstool millionaires.
It was one of the old square palaces of the North, in which Bernard Langdon, the son of Wentworth, was born.
And then the seed of the imperial palaces was sown; they were to spring up, grow and swarm, and cover the entire mount.
As long as the city was dependent on Byzantium a custodian of the imperial palaces remained there watching over the Palatine.
The grey, dismal Palatine, razed like some accursed city, suddenly became animated, peopled, crowned with palaces and temples.
The palaces of Tiberius, Caligula, and the Flavians are up above," resumed the guide.
For more than two hours already Pierre had been walking on, and yet he still had to visit all the earlier palaces on the north and east of the plateau.
And now Pierre beheld all those palaces which he had conjured up around him, resuscitated, resplendent in the full sunlight.
And the violent deeds of civil war and the ravages of invasion swept by like whirlwinds, throwing down the walls, razing the palaces and towers.
And to think that all these palaces were sleeping underneath!
The sun grew weary of gilding the palaces of Morad; the clouds of sorrow gathered round his head; and the tempest of hatred roared about his dwelling.
Then palaces and lofty domes arose; These for devotion, and for pleasure those.
The vice, however, continued to prevail without abatement in the palaces of kings and the mansions of the great.
The Goddess Fortune ever had an eye on her promising daughter--Gaming; and endowed her with splendid residences, in the most conspicuous streets, near the palaces of kings.
The proud and beautiful city had been shorn of its manifold glories, its palaces and vast commercial emporiums levelled to the earth and its wide area of homes, where dwelt a happy and a prosperous people, lay prostrate in thin ashes.
Every available pound of dynamite was hauled to that point and the sight was one of stupendous and appalling havoc as the cannons were trained on the palaces and the shot tore into the walls and toppled the buildings in crushing ruins.
They talked of magnificent palaces to take the place of those that had fallen before the earthquake, fire and dynamite.
The palaces of Europe could not excel it and for several years Huntington and his wife were its only occupants aside from the army of servants required to keep the house and grounds in order.
Within a block of the Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins palaces this railroad magnate of the west erected a mansion of granite and marble that caused all the others to be thrown in the shade.
A Modern City of Steel on the Ruins of the City that Was--A Beautiful Vista of Boulevards, Parks and Open Spaces Flanked by the Massive Structures of Commerce and the Palaces of Wealth and Fashion.
Palaces had to be adorned, as well as churches; and the painters and handicraftsmen found employment.
The ornaments of Byzantine churches andpalaces were brought to Europe.
A pilgrimage to old Jerusalem would open the doors of the New Jerusalem, whose streets were of gold, and whose palaces were of pearls.
Houses became more comfortable, churches more beautiful, andpalaces more splendid.
We obtained two large canoes, which seemed to us like veritable ships or floatingpalaces compared to the little craft we had used for so many days.
Its palaces may be grander, the interiors of its churches more magnificent, its treasures of art more wonderful, but in beauty it is as far short as London is of Edinburgh.
The Capitol was in reality that part of Capitoline Hill occupied by the Temple of Jupiter; but included the Piazza del Campidoglio, with the palaces that face it on three sides.
The infuriated populace sacked their houses, destroyed and burned the greater part of their palaces and towers.
The architectural backgrounds--dream palaces endowed with permanent life in bronze--are as marvellous as the figures and landscapes.
It was first the residence of the Medicean Grand Dukes, then of their Austrian successors, and is now one of the royal palaces of the King of Italy.
Their palaces and towers were destroyed, while the Uberti and their allies with the Emperor's German troops held the city.
In the Via Tornabuoni, the continuation of the Piazza Santa Trinita, stands the finest of all Florentine palaces of the Renaissance, the Palazzo Strozzi.
At the end of the Borgo San Jacopo, the Frescobaldi had their palaces in the piazza which still bears their name, at the head of the Ponte Santa Trinita.
Great palaces were built for the officers of the Republic; vast Gothic churches arose.
Not the gardens and palaces of the city, but its sins and sorrows, engage the Saviour's thoughts and occupy His time.
He was employed by the king and queen and some of the greatest nobles of France to embellish their palaces and gardens with the products of his beautiful art.
In palaces and council halls, the words of the "Learned Blacksmith" were listened to with the closest attention and deference.
Only now and then does she tremble with a fleeting horror, and then the palaces heaped upon her totter to their very foundations.
Some of us are sent to thepalaces of the mighty, others to the hovels of the poor.
At last, on the nineteenth of November, the wind changed, and the two palaces of Whitehall and St. James were at once bustle and confusion with preparations for the departure of the Princess of Orange and her husband.
But it was not merely in courts and palaces that arras was used; it was now, of a coarser fabric, universally adopted in the houses of the country gentry.
The Stories of the Tapestry in the Royal Palaces of Henry VIII.
Nor even while courted and caressed in courts and palaces did Needlework absent herself from the habitations of the poor.
On and on they sped, past the great palaces now dark and grim in starlight, past the market-place, round the great curve of the canal, and soon to their great relief the black boat was no longer following.
It was so lovely, with its domes, towers, and palaces mirrored in the still waters, and its hundreds of sails making spots of bright colour against the blue, that for a short time the children almost forgot their grief.
When did it rear such enchanted palaces of luxury as it is rearing in England at the present day?
The palaces of the kings of the Tai-ping dynasty are glaringly conspicuous among all these ruins.
A St. Francis by his hand is at present in the Ambras collection at Vienna; many of his statues adorn the episcopal palaces of Chur and Brixen, and the various churches throughout the province.
Its terraced gardens and stately palaces peeping amid the leafy shade, and giving glimpses of one of the sweetest spots the "Villegiatura" ever lingered in.
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