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Their adventures over hill and dale are mere riding parties; their fights mere festival tournaments, their enchantments mere pageant wonders.
The pageant of American poetry has been so often presented that no necessity exists for another exhaustive review of the art.
He came among us without any long notes of preparation, without any pageant or eloquence to charm and captivate our senses.
The display in Scotland will, certainly, be a gorgeous pageant, and a most extraordinary, if not most rational, piece of pastime.
Shakespeare may have leaned on the old milestone as he watched the Virgin Queen's pageant to Tilbury Fort in Armada times.
In the gorgeous pageant of his triumphal procession to the Lateran, the streets were decked with arches, emblems, and inscriptions.
Most impressive figures, unless one caught a glimpse of something comically human to disturb the effect of the heavenly pageant.
The coronation is merely a pageant, which, as such, may be postponed for a longer or shorter period, as occasion may require.
Freshly-worked tapestries, covering the aisle walls, shared with the vitreous glories the telling of pageant stories of religion and romance.
Such were his reflections on pageants which, to many thoughtless and happy minds, were the symbols of all earthly greatness.
A very curious account is given by the ancient chroniclers of the pageants and ceremonies which were enacted on this occasion.
There our newly awakened enthusiasm for community betterment promptly seized the pageant as a fitting means of expressing its urgent emotion.
Meanwhile, the passing of the social pageant interests them more deeply than is apparent on the frothy surface of social things.
From that moment on the pageant was continuous, bud and blossom and virginal leaf succeeding one another in showering abundance.
The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us: our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty.
On the festival mentioned there was a pageant representing feudal princes travelling in state, accompanied by their retainers and servants.
The queen doubtless looking, from some gorgeously decorated point of vantage when she did not personally share in the pageant.
They endeavor to express a mood of richness, fullness and success and have the effect of laden chariots in a triumphant pageant.
That this lady was acquainted with social pageants might have been in the first instant quite evidenced by her comportment here.
An elaborate celebration had been prepared, with parades and pageants in the daytime, and fireworks and a sham battle at night.
Religion was with the Venetians a delightful pastime, an occasion for festivals and pageants, a means of increasing the civic glory.
In commemoration of the joyful event, there was a display of all the military pageants and gymnastic games then in vogue.
The daily brightening of the sumptuous season, the vivid presentment of the great pageant of the distant mountains glowed noiselessly.
The Queen especially enjoyed these pageants, as they seemed to symbolize at once the greatness of her position and her personal dignity.
They form part of the pageant, like the Empress's cream-colored carriage and the white horses and scarlet liveries of the Metropolitan.
In 1649, a great festival and pageant took place, in which the goldsmiths and visiting craftsmen from other corporations took part.
"I retract the beasts," cried the pageant master, whose red eyes blazed terribly, and he danced with vexation of my ruling.
That thought must console me for the terrible toning down and darkening of what, otherwise, would have been a great pageant.
The enemy believed it was only a holiday pageant, and their pickets leaned on their muskets, and watched the brilliant movement.
The roadways were full of richly attired nobles on horseback, riding rapidly toward the Palace where the pageant was to start.
Pisistratus readily acceded to the terms, and it was resolved by a theatrical pageant to reconcile his return to the people.
The following season we had a smaller pageant, the costumed personages being the characters in Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
After all, Life, wherever one sees it, is, if one has eyes, a wonderful pageant, the greatest spectacular melodrama I can imagine.
Its genius in creating caricatures and fake pageants of current political situations at the capital and its public men is most remarkable.
The brilliant pageant of canoes went on down the river, seeming to grow smaller, until it dwindled to nothingness in the distance.
The production, too, of these pageants was extremely costly; indeed, each one has been set down at fifteen or twenty pounds sterling.
The procession is very slow, moving at a snail's pace, and as it proceeds, the pageant sways with a peculiar serpentine rhythm.
We enter and stand, in fact, where we had stood in imagination watching the triumphant pageants of former ages defiling past us.
His Eminence was a stupid but handsome man, tall of figure, majestic, and exceedingly vain of his personal appearance in ecclesiastical pageants.
The "Pageant of Roses" was celebrated here lately, and I cannot give you a better idea of it than by copying the synopsis.
Other ordinances required members to make periodical payments to a common fund, and to participate in certain common religious observances, festivities and pageants.
Mlle de Rochambeau looked out, first at the gorgeous pageant in the sky, and then, curiously, at the strangeness of her new surroundings.
Surely this daily human life of ours was not ordained to be a pageant of austerity reaching from the cradle to the grave.
These people so dearly love the pomp and glitter of fine pageants that the simplicity of our republican nation could not be endured.
Though the nation mourned, two hearts, at least, of all who looked upon the solemn pageant of that day were in gala attire.
Ceremonies, even the most sacred, were mocked at, and burlesque processions of ecclesiastical pageants excited the ribald laughter of the crowd.
Formerly, when the pageant was of a more important character than now, the plow was drawn by oxen decorated with ribbons.
The recent craze for historical pageants is, in reality, one of the best ideas, educationally, that has come over us of late years.
A brilliant pageant, succeeded by a dramatic and stirring incident, was now to prelude the march of Lee into the enemy's territory.
The pageant of the French consul-general going to pay his respects to the Viceroy, exhibited one of the shows of the place.
As I sit and gaze steadfastly into the past, all those well-known scenes sweep like a fairy pageant across my aching sight.
It was an extraordinarily magnificent pageant, heralds and trumpeters in coats of cloth of gold adding greatly to the brilliancy and pomp.
Night after night, her gentlewomen attend the repetition of scenes which she enacts, like a shadowy pageant in Hades of bygone life.
The spectacular effect of a pageant here is greatly heightened by the cloudless blue sky, and the wealth of light and color.
The first was familiar to Edith, who dropped her garland to gaze on the approaching pageant; the last was strange to her.
In the Pageant of 1913 all these settlers were represented by artistically clad groups who paraded the streets singing and dancing.
On each side the pillared avenues were lined with spectators, all watching the solemn pageant in reverential silence, and mostly in deep mourning.
Many a court intrigue or senseless pageant bulks larger in the annals, but it was one of the most far-reaching in its effects.
It is no discredit to Sir William Harcourt that he failed to live fully up to the more stately standards of this pageant of nomenclature.
Jessica breathed it deeply as her buoyant step carried her along the mountain trails, brave in the pageant of the passing year.
Eastward the horizon is made glorious by the bright pageants of the rising sun, whose majestic approach is heralded by rainbow-hued clouds.
That these figures were allegorical no one can doubt who has any knowledge of the pageants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Their pageants, their processions, their pilgrimages were all rudely swept away as superstitious rubbish; their gay holidays had become a gloomy blank.
War does not often present such a pageant as that of this armada sailing down the Tennessee and then the Mississippi Rivers.
The gorgeous pageant has passed, the roar of battle has ceased, the multitude has mingled with the dust, the Empire is extinct.
The Mobile men gathered about the corners, or sullenly contemplated the pageant from their windows, but scarcely a lady could be seen.
The princess loved the world and its pleasures; and sighed to mingle in its busy scenes, and gaze upon its gorgeous pageants.
Her Majesty interchanged salutations with her relatives, after which her own procession departed, and the regal pageant was suddenly dissolved.
Instead of supporting it as an unavoidable nuisance, only redeemable by its brevity, she goes through it as if it were a pageant or a procession.
It is the great past, illustrated by the pageant of heroes and the prophetic pictures of Aeneas's shield, that kindles the poet's imagination.
His palaces, landscapes, pageants, feasts, are taken to pieces in all their parts, and all these parts are likened to some other things.
There were parades and pageants, fireworks and speeches and so many presents and parties it makes me jealous just to think of them.
Seven months later, the people were diverted by the more cheerful pageant of the king's coronation, which was conducted with great magnificence.
Women are also commercial travelers, conductors of entertainments, pageant managers, window decorators, brokers and financial advisers, theatrical managers and producers of plays.
Her mind was still too freshly packed with European impressions to receive any real idea of the value of this pageant, she told herself.
The center of the floor remained clear, and here the tableaux and pageants representing the various stages in the history of lace were performed.
The eye of the mangy and starving wolf from his thicket gleams dully at the glittering pageant of heartless irresponsibility and waste.
According to the "auntie," the village people had been at first just as strongly opposed to the pageant as to any of the plays.
I cannot describe the magnificent way in which the City was decorated, nor the numerous pageants which were prepared to do her honor.
And yet, empty and blundering as the conception of this pageant may seem and is, there is nevertheless marrow and hope in it.
Group follows group, with that contrast and variety which give interest to a pageant, and with the proper orderliness to give it unity.
A Pageant exhibits all the fun of a Fancy Dress Ball, with this great difference: that its motive is reverent instead of irreverent.
We see the imperial barges glide up the Nile as in a pageant, but it is all a wordless pantomime, though the beautiful immortal figure stands.
The hall was thronged with spectators, for a masque was to be given, and menials as well as courtiers were interested in the pageant.
Before her dreaming eyes the pageant passed again of hills and fields asleep in sweet glamour of moonlight, breathing pastoral fragrance upon the night.
No one noticed whether rain fell, or the sun shone, whilst that piteous pageant of triumphant enmity, passed, in ceaseless cinema, before their eyes.
They looked at their aunt in that far-off impassive manner with which participants in a high pageant or solemn observance always regard one another.
The worthy man, astonished and half-frightened at so strange a pageant, hastened home and told what he had seen to his wife and children.
The pageant was arranged on the lines of a Roman triumph and the distances so calculated that Bonaparte was the one impressive figure.
During a whole month nothing was seen at the court but feasting and pageants, and in the city nothing but gaiety and rejoicings.
In processions and pageants, at banquets, weddings, betrothals, christenings, funerals, on every occasion in life, the people wore headgear which helped to make the picture.
Her delight was to move in perpetual progresses from castle to castle through a series of gorgeous pageants, fanciful and extravagant as a caliph's dream.
Do not fail to see our Mammoth Street Parade, the Grand Oriental and Princely Pageant, over nine miles in length, and don't you forget it!
And then, apart from natural beauty, there is the vast, absorbing, incredible pageant of humanity, full of pathos, of wistfulness, and of sweetness.
Humor and pathos, tragedy and comedy, all find their place and glimpses of the pageant of human history flit through the pages.
Thief, thief elf with a key, a thousand rasping angels their throaty javelins hurled from branch's edge, brief pageant robbing summer's pantry.
On that day, however, military display was added to the usual gaiety of the scene, and to the ordinary municipal pageants of the time.
The participation of foreign elements, now being assimilated into our national life, has added to the richness and interest of Fourth of July pageants.
There were special buildings, elaborate pageants elaborately set, and feasts of five hundred dishes with sixty oxen for one course and eight-hundred-pound plum puddings.
Nor need the occurrence of exhibitions of archery and of the Robin Hood plays and pageants, at this time of the year, occasion any difficulty.