Wash-ing-ton was touched to the quick when he heard that I some one had said that there was more pomp at his house than at St. James, where King George held his court, and that his bows were much too stiff and cold.
I die in peace, and wish to be carried to the tomb in peace, and far from the vanities and pomp of this world.
On the present occasion, such small pomp as there was, was confined to the religious part of the ceremony.
The Moors gazed with fearful admiration at this glorious pageant, wherein the pomp of the court was mingled with the terrors of the camp.
In the year after her death, the great feast of Osiris, in the month of Mesore, was celebrated at Alexandria with more than usual pomp by the Queen Arsinoë.
Once a year the people of Memphis celebrated the birthday of Apis with great pomp and expense, and one of the chief ceremonies on the occasion was the throwing a golden dish into the Nile.
The Egyptian fleet moved out of harbour to meet him, a pomp which the kings of Egypt had before kept for themselves alone.
The procession began with the pomp of Osiris, at the head of which were the Sileni in scarlet and purple cloaks, who opened the way through the crowd.
He had at least six years' more work in him, and carried himself with all the pomp and dignity of a Drum-Major of the Guards.
And now they come where all external pomp And rank and caste and creed are nothing worth.
In the satisfaction of doing my duty I feel a delight above all that riches, pomp or sensuality could afford.
Charmed with the pomp of worldly pleasures, I endeavor to show them that they are all vanity and deceit.
The tragick pomp of his sad exequies, And deadly burning torches are at hand, I must accompany the mornefull troope: And sacryfice my teares to the Gods below.
From all that pompto be cast hed-long downe, You may conceaue what Pompey doth sustayne, I was not wont to walke thus all alone, But to be met with troopes of Horse and Men.
All that I am is but despaire and greefe, This all I giue to Celebrate thy death, What funerall pomp of riches and of pelfe, 1850 Do you expect?
By order of the general, they were buried with great pomp and splendor, that is, for those times.
In the outer look of the new University there was nothing of the pomp that overawes the freshman as he first paces the "High" or looks down from the gallery of St. Mary's.
The palace elephants were decked and sent to fetch with all pomp Subhasastri and his wife to the court.
The first entrance into a new house to dwell is performed always with a great deal of pomp and ceremony, even by the poor according to their means.
Filicaja was formed in the school of Chiabrera; but, with his pomp of sound and boldness of imagery, he is animated by a deeper sense both of religion and patriotism.
It was indeed more full of action and scenic pomp than any he had written, and probably than any other which up to that time had been represented in France.
Chiabrera borrowed from Pindar that grandeur of sound, that pomp of epithets, that rich swell of imagery, that unvarying majesty of conception, which distinguish the odes of both poets.
They burned his body and collected the ashes into an urn, not carelessly, but mingling a sort of triumphal pomp with his funeral procession.
The clocks tick out the scented hours, and with loud singing of happy birds, with pomp of flowers and bees, and freaked butterflies, God's day treads royally past.
It was in this quaint old cathedral church, dating, so archaeologists assert, from the eleventh century, that Margaret's remains were interred with all due pomp and ceremony.
Juan de Mariana, the Spanish historian, records that the ceremony was celebrated with signal pomp by the schismatical Pope Benedict XIII.
After the ceremony of his reception, Colleoni was conducted with no less pomp to his lodgings, and the next ten days were spent in festivities of all sorts.
It was a most extraordinary Bacchic procession--a pomp which, though undreamed of on the banks of the Ilissus, proclaimed the deity of Dionysos in authentic fashion.
Trovaso no less than in the Temptations of Eve and Christ; in the decorative pomp of the Sala del Senato, and in the Paradisal vision of the Sala del Gran Consiglio.
On the king's approach, Colleoni issued with trumpets blowing and banners flying to greet his guest, gratifying him thus with a spectacle of the pomp and circumstance of war as carried on in Italy.
In the following March he buried his predecessor with pomp in San Lorenzo.
He only dwells on the pathetic poverty of the pomp of the procession.
He was forgotten as soon as life left his body, and was hurriedly buried with that empty pomp which but too often attends a despot to the grave.
A few days before his self-will brought him to his death-bed, we saw him ride through the St. Petersburg streets with no pomp and no attendants, yet in as great pride as ever Despotism gave a man.
But these are engraved in a more enduring page, and will have their reward when earth and its emblazoned pomp and pride shall have passed away like a vision.
How near does our beloved queen seem to be to the poorest widow in the land, now that, amid all the pomp of her royalty and the splendour of her unrivalled station, she is suffering from the painful sense of her great bereavement.
From his situation he could well infer that he had had some foolish dream of pomp and lordship.
The hen supplies him with her eggs, the cow with her milk and with butter and cheese, and the lamb with its wool; while we carry him and his burdens, multiply his strength in battle, and gratify his love of pomp and pleasure.
What means thy coming hither with such consuming heat, such pomp as make Odin's bleak retreat unbearable, unless he strive to hold by force what is his by treaty?
The marriage of the young princess Elizabeth to Louis, son of the Landgrave of Thuringia, was solemnized with great pomp at Presburg, in 1212.
By the glare of torchlight on the bloody ground, amid the noise and throng of the armed multitude, and with all the sublime pomp of tumult, the republican magistrates were inaugurated.
The Grand Khan, having obtained this signal victory, returned with great pomp and triumph to the capital city of Kanbalu.
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