A very curious and clever symbol of the Trinity is portrayed in Fig.
Hideous "evil spirits" were portrayed on the outside of almost every Christian edifice at one time, and much of the Celtic ornament produced by the early monks consisted of an anastomosis, or network, of grotesque creatures.
Bransby, head of the school, whom Poe so quaintly portrayed in "William Wilson.
His advice to remain content with the success they had won roused the anger of Hector, whose headstrong character is well portrayed in his speech.
Tragedy is based on a conflict of some sort; here the wilful spirit of youth is portrayed as defying the forces of justice and righteousness; it is insolence which brings Xerxes to ruin.
The spectral figures in the Dance of Death, the most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly.
New England and the South have beenportrayed by various writers.
In this way we see that nearly every great practical question of general interest may be discussed or portrayed in fiction.
Puccio has here portrayed himself in the midst of the sailors.
In the same place, next to the Pope, heportrayed the Cardinal Niccola da Prato, who had at that time come to Florence as the Pope's legate, as Giov.
The shell-fish portrayed on next page is that from which the Tyrian purple dye is obtained.
He portrayed only a daughter of Eve, one of those pretty birds who, as soon as they are fledged, flutter forth from the home-nest to their lovers.
She looked much younger than her twenty-seven years,--her childlike figure and face portrayed her as about eighteen, not more.
The interest of the poem centers in Napoleon's own vindication of himself as portrayed by Browning.
Balaustion, as Browning has portrayedher in this poem, is the lyric girl developed into splendid womanhood.
They are like a final synthesis of the problems of existence which he has previously portrayed and analyzed from myriad points of view in his dramatic presentation of character and his dramatic interpretations of spiritual moods.
The mood here portrayed was one which might have been fostered in Browning in relation to his own time.
Professor William James himself could not better have portrayed a case of religious ecstasy growing out of genuine exaltation of thought than the poet has in David's experience.
The purest Gothic architecture portrayed in the pigtail age nearly always has a pigtail look.
But if we recall such historical phenomena as the above-mentioned Maria Theresa sheep-farm, we will find that for their age the clumsy figures were well portrayed characteristic types, far rather than caricatures.
The calm, easy-going andante, in which our classical age portrayed many of its clearest and purest musical pictures, is a tempo absolutely tabooed by modern Romanticists.
At this celebration, which the poet has portrayed with marked success, there are present some beautiful Greek courtesans, who sing the praises of Alexander, and amid loud rejoicing ransack his jewel-casket.
Few poets, therefore, have portrayed such a series of characters without guile and without vulgarity as Heyse.
The canto "Amljot's Yearning for the Ocean," in whose rhythm we feel the monotonous ebb and flow of the sea, is one of the most beautiful of all the poems that have everportrayed the poetry of the sea.
Northern people took very little interest at that time in the tender passion for itself alone; the emotions were studied and portrayed in their relation to morality and religion.
But my curiosity was aroused to meet a person whose ideas and experiences were so signally unlike my own, especially in view of the seeming total transition of his sentiments as portrayed in his subsequent prose writings.
In the drawing, Sancho was originally portrayed with a full face; but Hogarth, judiciously thinking a profile would be preferable, fixed a bit of paper over his first thought, and altered it to the state in which it is here engraved.
The emaciated limbs and wasted cheek portrayed fasting and exhaustion, while in the attitude itself, sleep seemed verging upon death.
Even the oddities that he portrayed were usually done by some passing bit of mimicry of the individual in question.
What the splendid soil brings forth in the way of productions, I have had portrayed in these pictures, with the intention of offering them to my father Ammon, as a memorial for all times.
Enter the huge courts of an Egyptian temple, or temple-palace, and you will see portrayed upon its lofty walls row upon row of deities.
It is said that during the twentieth dynasty Seth is suddenly portrayed as the principle of evil "with which is associated sin.
Sometimes this Deity is portrayed with sprouting horns, and again with a crown of ivy.
He portrayed the same idea as did Crishna, Ballaji, the dying Osiris, and all the other sun-gods.
She was portrayed as a mother with a child in her arms, and every attribute ascribed to her showing that she was supposed to be as fond as any earthly female ever was.
It was a conception which was a direct outgrowth of Nature worship or of that religious idea which was portrayed by a mother and her child.
Astrologically the triune Deity of the ancients portrayed the processes of Nature.
This idea, portrayed as it was by a mother and her child, linked woman with the stars.
However, as Cybele and Muth portrayed the same idea, namely, female power and wisdom, we are not surprised that they should have been worshipped under the same emblem.
The forms of the serpents thus portrayed with anthropomorphic legs and slight wings are, in their main shapes, of ordinary species.
Had the design of Art been to represent the theological theory, Satan would have been portrayed in a fascinating form.
I suspect that the bristling hair so frequently portrayed in the Japanese Oni, Devils, refers to their frequent residence at the centre of a gale of wind.
In Hindu iconography she is portrayedin drapery of beautiful colours, with decoration of richest gems and broidery of flowers.
The Furies were portrayed bearing serpents in their hands, and each of these might carry ideally the terrors of Apophis: Time also is a detective, and the guilty heard it saying, 'Your sin will find you out.
But may it not rather be the healthy reaction from morbid images of terror, with which a purely natural and inevitable event has so long been invested by priests, and portrayed in such popular pictures as 'The Dance of Death?
The situation is portrayed with much spirit and humor, as well as with the most perfect good-humor.
All that Charlotte saw and all the friends she made were afterwards portrayed in her stories.
Ezekiel refers to the figures, portrayedin vermilion, which adorned the walls of the houses of the rich.
The other force conducive to reaction was the circulation through intelligent Negroes of antislavery accounts of the wrongs to colored people and the well portrayed exploits of Toussaint L'Ouverture.
The situation in many parts of the South was just as Berry portrayed it in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832.
But why should the Læstrigonians beportrayed as giants?
In the first place the Iliad is a unity from the stand-point of its hero Achilles, who has a completely rounded period of his life portrayed therein, which portrayal, however, gives also a vivid picture of the Trojan War up to date.
But a spirit is now portrayed which is negative to Greek spirit, which denies and defies it in its very essence; the result is a new set of supernatural shapes which dominate the separated world.
In the two previous Books we saw portrayed chiefly institutional life in Family and in State.
Demodocus has as his theme the war at Troy with its lays of heroes, and its famous deeds; he celebrates the period portrayed in the Iliad; his field is the Heroic Epos, or the songs of which it is composed.
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