So when my temple is fallen And lies in dust, Where then will be the memory Of your beauty?
In the Temple of Nemesis at Tennis the conviction that the goddess had ceased to persecute him took possession of his mind.
Without encountering any resistance, they broke through the necropolis into Alexandria, crossed the Draco canal, and marched past the unfinished Temple of Serapis through the Rhakotis.
Yet it seemed impossible to return to the cabin; the memory of Ledscha imploring vengeance, and the stern image of the avenging goddess in the cella of the little Temple of Nemesis, completely mastered him.
While the morning star was still paling, the lad who after Hermon's landing had raced along the shore with the burning torch glided into the little pronaos of the Temple of Nemesis.
On his return to Tennis he had instantly requested to be conducted to the Temple of Demeter, to inspect the blinded Hermon's rescued work.
The nomarch had had it locked up in the neighbouring temple of the goddess.
Had it still been light, she would have gone to the temple of Demeter at once; but the sun had just set, and Proclus was obliged to beg her to have patience.
The goddess before her was the very one whose statue stood in the temple of Demeter, and to whom she also sacrificed, with the Greeks in Tennis, when danger threatened the harvest.
Several actors were just coming from rehearsal in the theatre of Dionysus, east of the Temple of Poseidon, of which, like all the stages in the city, Proclus was chief manager.
The sacred precinct Pithom, above which towered the magnificently restoredtemple of the god Turn, was also still adorned with many superb ones, as well as lofty masts, banners, and triumphal arches.
It came from the Temple of Nemesis--a pretty little structure belonging to the time of Alexander the Great, which he had often examined with pleasure.
The parlour was for ornament and state--temple and shrine for the family Bible and the family samplers, laborious works of art which adorned the walls.
In the headquarters temples men interested in literary pursuits withdrew completely from templeaffairs and devoted themselves exclusively to literature.
This Chinese monk, merely one of many in his native China, had become head of the leading Zen temple in Japan.
According to the story: One day Huang-po ordered all the monks of the temple to work in the tea garden.
Eisai ended his days as abbot of the Kyoto temple of Kennin-ji and leader of a small Zen community that was careful not to quarrel with the powers of Tendai and Shingon, which also had altars in the temple.
In midsummer of 1223, Dogen finally moved ashore and entered the temple on Mt.
The Japanese strongman was delighted and proceeded to have the temple of another sect converted to a Zen establishment, making Lan-ch'i abbot.
Since Eisai's temple was the first to include Ch'an practice, he has received credit for founding Japanese Rinzai Zen.
He therefore began to drift from temple to temple until, at nineteen, he experienced another spiritual crisis.
Back at thetemple where he had started, he no longer had any idea of what to do.
Huai-hai laughed heartily, and then returned to histemple and said to the assembly, "At the foot of the Ta-hsiung Mountain there is a tiger.
After another move he was summoned in 1137 by the prime minister, himself also a former pupil of Yuan-wu, to come and establish a temple near the new southern capital of Hangchow.
It is their Alp, their shrine, the tenth wonder of the world, a prison, a palace, and a temple still.
General’s command, as he pulled up his temple spectacles, which he generally wore.
He had just invited me to take a draught of wine out of his canteen, and was in the act of handing it to me, when he received a shot through the right temple that came out at the eye.
We may think of the pride with which we should see our names enrolled among those of the illustrious builders by whom this temple has been slowly reared since the infancy of mankind.
If the temple rises out of the tomb, is modeled on that, and remains to the last pre-eminently a place of sacrifice, the church is an enlarged dwelling house.
We may long to be allowed to add our own little stone to the growing temple of science.
The construction of the play is of the slightest, turning at its most serious point on the incident of "The Pharisee and the Publican going up to the Temple to pray.
So had she barred all entrance to her soul from them and like the Holy of Holies behind the locked gates of the Temple was inapproachable to their unsanctified feet.
In a Word, I take it to be the only Building that can compare with the famous Templeof Solomon, of which there is so glorious a Description in the Scriptures.
Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you?
In a Word, in this august Temple we see the Master-Pieces of the most skilful Artists in all manner of Works; and if a Man has never so little Taste for Curiosities, he will at every Turn discover new Beauties.
But the story that there is a secret passage cut in the rock from the Inca castle at the top of the hill down through it and into Cuzco where it opens to the Temple of the Sun is too much for any but native credulity.
No remains of a complete roofed building, either templeor palace; nothing but ruins, and mostly fragmentary ruins.
So far as we can tell, the great Sun Temple at Cuzco consisted only of lofty walls enclosing courts, with no decoration but plates of gold attached to the walls.
These led up to a platform, on which a temple may have stood.
The most beautifully finished piece of all is to be seen in the remains of the great Temple of the Sun on whose site and out of whose ruins have been built the church and convent of St. Dominick.
They threw into the lakes or hid in the ground all the temple gold that could be got away before the Spanish plunderers fell upon them, but made little attempt to defend their sacred places or images.
The nave extends eighty-one feet three inches back, the whole length of the temple being one hundred and two feet three inches.
A splendid temple shall be raised to her, A public funeral be hers, and I The funeral eulogy myself will speak.
They were only faintly interested in what was going forward; they had no conversation unless they met a kindred spirit, who was willing to discuss the state of affairs east of Temple Bar.
It must not be, or there seemed an end to all possibility of living on in the shattered temple of his broken idol.
He assembled the multitude on the temple square and delivered to them a written speech, a copy of which is here given.
He, with General Doniphan and Amos Rees, had acted as counsel for the exiles, and had seen the doors of the temple of justice closed in their faces by mob violence, and all redress denied them.
Rome gradually became the common temple of her subjects; and the freedom of the city was bestowed on all the gods of mankind.
He assisted in moving the Saints out of Far West, and returned with the twelve to fulfill the revelation concerning the Twelve taking their leave of the Saints on the building site of the Temple at Far West.
The pylons of this temple faced towards the houses of the city, but the inner courts were built against the walls of Tanis and looked out across the face of the water.
Clothe him in the robes of death, and set him on the knees of Osiris in the Temple of Osiris.
Then the chariot and the horsemen passed on again, till they came to the city of On, and found the host of Pharaoh gathering in the great walled space that is before the Temple of Ra.
Moreover I ask thee to meet me by the pylon of the Temple of Hathor to-morrow at one hour before midnight.
But this thought has held my hand: I, Meriamun, will live to look across his grave and break his images, and beat out the writings of his name from every temple wall in Khem, as they beat out the hated name of Hatshepu.
For now he remembered that this was the day when the Strange Hathor should stand upon the pylon of the temple and call the people to her, and he was minded to look upon her, and if need be to do battle with that which guarded her.
Presently the Temple was full to overflowing, the doors were shut and barred, and a voice from behind the veil cried: "Silence!
Here lie those," said the priest, "who last strove to come near the Holy Hathor, and to pass into the shrine of the temple where night and day she sits and sings and weaves with her golden shuttle.
Sixteen thousand or more abandoned the city and its nearly finished temple within the year.
Requests to be relieved from public duties on account of his age and infirmities--Recommends his grandson, William Temple Franklin, to Congress.
Late in the evening his messenger came for us, and we followed to the Temple of Victory, where he lodged with Rutilianus, the General of the Wall.
A month later I saw Allo with his horses--by the Temple of Pan, O Faun--and he gave me a great necklace of gold studded with coral.
