They betook themselves to The Hague to proceed there to the overthrow of statues and altars, without the reformed lending them any aid either there or elsewhere.
You shall be cut in twain, evil statue of wood, for all the statues of flesh and bone that were burned in your name, burned, hanged, buried alive without pity.
There was a fitness in their decorating the temples and the statues of the gods with gold, and silver, and ivory, and amber, and gems.
Statues were everywhere, everywhere colour, everywhere crowds of gayly dressed citizens and foreigners.
The young man was ushered into a spacious, handsomely furnished and decorated atrium, where were arranged lines of statues of the various maximæ[48] of the little religious order.
Beyond, were stone walls over which delicate vines were creeping, and marble statues were half hidden in the niches.
Sculptors modelled beautiful statues that we count among our greatest treasures to-day.
It is grand inside, and there is a court in the middle of the building with fountains and statues and beautiful plants.
The body of the church has been almost entirely recased with stone since I was here before; but the tower still retains its antiquity, and is decorated with statues that look down from their lofty niches seemingly in good preservation.
Between the pillars that separate the nave from the side aisles, there are ancient tombs, most of which have recumbent statues on them.
It is a most noble edifice; and I delight, too, in the statues that crown some of its heights, and in the wreaths of sculpture which are hung around it.
There is a bronze equestrian statue of the Queen in one of the streets, and one or two more equestrian or other statues of eminent persons.
I wonder when men will begin to erect monuments to human error; hitherto their pillars and statues have only been for the sake of glorification.
I persuaded myself that the statues and buildings could move, that the oxen and other brute beasts could speak and tell strange tidings, and that I should see and hear oracles from heaven, conveyed on the beams of the sun.
So naturally Central Square with its trees and its fountains and its statues is one of the places of chief interest in the City.
He likewise erected statues of himself, formed of stone, with a bow and a lance: which statues were in length four cubits and four palms, according to the dimensions of his own height and stature.
But Pausanias acknowledges that it was an imposition; for neither statues of brass, nor statues of any sort, were in use at the time alluded to.
In Egypt was a serpent named Thermuthis, which was looked upon as very sacred; and the natives are said to have made use of it as a royal tiara, with which they ornamented the statues of [462]Isis.
The statues were oddly distorted with icicles and snow; they looked very cold--especially the Cupid in the temple--a windy and forlorn white kiosk where a naked child suffered exile.
Marble statues and bronzes and fountains were here and there.
Just then the costume was hardly more of a disguise than the gold or bronze powder smeared on by those who pose as statues at the vaudevilles.
His brilliant talent, which seems to have been formed by the influence of that world of statues with which Louis XIV.
But to hear of the famous statues and learn from pictures to know the styles of the old sculptors seemed to please her best of all.
Mr. Carlyon had quantities of books of photographs of all the famousstatues in Europe and especially in Italy and Greece, but she could not find any likeness to him in any of her recollection of them.
At last he dropped the lute to his feet with a clatter, and, wrapping himself in the syrma, stood as if petrified, like one of those statues of Niobe which ornamented the courtyard of the Palatine.
Through Greece and Asia, indeed, the gifts and oblations and even the statues of the deities were carried off.
The space between the two metæ or goals was filled with statues and obelisks; and we may still remark a very singular fragment of antiquity, the bodies of three serpents, twisted into one pillar of brass.
It was inscribed on his colossal statues and repeated in the redoubled acclamations of the mournful and applauding senate.
The chapel of Alexander Severus containedstatues of Abraham, Orpheus, Apollonius, Pythagoras, and our Lord.
This seems to refer to the Roman temple of Isis in front of which stood the statues of the divinities, vi.
Thus he who penetrates into the interior of a sanctuary leaves behind him the statues placed (at the entrance) of the temple.
A wide open space known as Albert Square fronts the Town Hall, with an Albert Memorial in the centre, flanked by statuesof John Bright and Bishop Fraser.
The esplanade in front of it, where are statues of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Dr.
The books were in cases arranged around the walls in convenient manner, and busts and statues of the Muses, of Minerva, and of men of note were used then as they are now for ornaments.
Temples and statues were dedicated to his honor; a golden chair was assigned for his use when he sat in the senate; the month Quintilis was renamed after him Julius (July); and other unheard of honors were thrust upon him by a servile senate.
And on that historic battle-field he insisted on drawing up, while he criticised the statues and gave the artist many curious details (quite new to history) of the lives of the celebrated men they represented.
Bury it in one of your flower-beds, and erect one of your own statues for a monument.
The statues were broken to pieces, the altars torn down, and then the chiefs ordered the tribesmen to fetch in faggots.
They understood, however, when advancing to the statues of the gods that stood behind the altars, she waved her spear.
Some bronze statues stood on plinths, and some pots of tall aquatic plants stood in the basin; heavy hangings covered the entrance.
Hangings had been pulled down, statues overthrown, and the paintings on the plaster chipped from the walls.
Statues of white marble gleamed among them, and fountains of perfumed waters filled the air with sweet odours.
In Oneiria they had advanced a long way beyond the ideas which the old knight brought with him: the inorganic kingdoms had been called in to supply the poverty of the organic, and vases and statues were there without number.
Bernini's name is perpetuated in the colossal statues on the colonnade of St. Peter's, the great bronze angels with their draperies streaming to the winds on the Ponte San Angelo, and in the vast fountain in the Piazza Navona.
But the tintedstatues of Gibson seemed to her inartistic.
Statues fill the niches, and the chapels and confessionals are all beautifully decorated.
Thorwaldsen, on first arriving in Rome, wandered for three years, it is said, among the statues of gods and heroes, like a man in a dream.
The dome is decorated with frescoes and caryatides, and with the statues of numbers of eminent men, among whom are Dante, Raphael, Savonarola, and Cavour.
Which of these statues is calculated to uplift and to exalt all who come near?
The historic statuesof Castor and Pollux mark the portals; on either hand there are seen the Muses of ancient sculpture, the Palazzo Senatoriale and the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
He believed no artistic difficulties would present themselves, as in the fifteenth century different architects took plaster casts of the decorations of the statues and of every detail of the Baths.
Up the rose-red carpeted stairs the guests walked, the statues looking silently on, but apparently there was no Galatea to step down from her niche and join the happy throng.
At the foot of the Scala Santa, on either side, are statues of Christ and Judas, and of Christ and Pilate, very interesting groups by Jacometti, and there is also a kneeling statue of Pio Nono.
I have hundreds of statues in my head, but they are in the future tense.
Many avenues and streets were repaved, others were planted with bordering lines of shade trees, and several of the large reservations were adorned with statues and fountains.
It was executed in marble by Luigi Persico, an Italian sculptor, whose work gave such satisfaction to Mr. Adams that he secured for him an order for the two colossalstatues which now flank the central doorway.
The public reservations are ornamented with shrubs and flowers, while numerous statues of the heroes and the statesmen of the country are to be seen in different parts of the city.
Beautiful as his ideal figures are, he yet excels in his busts and statues of the great men of his native land.
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