If it be a house, the child lives therein a different life for every day in the week; for no monarch alive is so all-powerful as he whose throne is the imagination.

Her throne was an arm-chair, raised on blocks of wood.

The French imperial throne is in an especial manner the result of that alarm.

It is to declare with the Atheist, that man is independent of the goodness of his Creator for his enjoymentsthat human happiness calls not for any of the appliances of his bountythat God's throne is a nullity, himself a superfluity.

Cursed be the Norseman who puts trust In mortar and in stone; Who rears a wall, or builds a tower, Or makes on earth his throne; My monarch throne's the willing wave, That bears me on the beach; My sepulchre's the deep sea surge, Where lead shall never reach; My death-song is the howling wind, That bends my quivering mast, Bid England's maidens join the song, I there made orphans last.

The west front, with the Bishop's Palace on its left, is perhaps the best feature of the exterior; while the Bishop's Throne, in the cathedral, is a wonderfully early piece of carving, ornamented with figures of the kings of Mercia.

The water in which Scherezade dipped her fingers, is for him a fountain of Castalia; the throne he erects to her apotheosis becomes her scaffold.

" "I never saw one, but I've often heard that thrones were unpleasant things.

And inasmuch as the throne on which you are seated is a light that dazzles us, bow, if it please you, the heavens which you inhabit, and after the example of the Eternal Sovereign, whose image you bear, condescend to visit us with your gracious mercy.

Through the whole void of night I search, So dumbly crying out to thee; But thou are not; and night's vast throne Becomes an all stupendous church With star-bells knelling unto me Who in all space am most alone!

The throne on which the Virgin is seated, is, in very early pictures, merely an embroidered cushion on a sort of stool, or a carved Gothic chair, such as we see in the thrones and stalls of cathedrals.

The throne is an immense, heavy bedstead, the posts of which are thickly incrusted with rubies, turquoises, emeralds, and sapphires.

Rustem removed, the Persian throne is ours, An easy conquest to confederate powers; And then, secured by some propitious snare, Sohráb himself our galling bonds shall wear.

The Serbian throne in 1903 was a source neither of glory nor of riches, and it was notoriously no sinecure.

Within two years of his accession the throne of Stephen was evidently becoming an insecure seat.

The patience of the contemplative spirit in Prometheus is to be followed by the daring of the active demagorgon, at whose touch all "old thrones" are at once and for ever to be cast down into the dust.

His throne is a tomb, of which the bolted doors and the cornice of uraei may be seen painted on the side.

The throne is the first object you see on entering the hall, being close to the door; a chair of antique form, with a high, peaked back, and a square canopy above, the whole richly carved and quite covered with burnished gilding, besides being adorned with rows of rock crystalswhich seemed to me of rather questionable taste....

The throne of the West Saxons was not an inheritance to be desired in the year 871, when Alfred succeeded his gallant brother.

Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.

Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.

Party-spirit meant more than it has ever done since, and scarcely less than it had meant when the throne itself was the stake for which parties played some forty years before.

Accordingly, as his throne was the highest, he used to wish all thrones to be regarded as held in fee from him.

In Nature's stamp of unassisted grace Each limb is moulded; simple as the mind The vest they wear; and not a hand but works, Or tills the ground with honourable toil: By youth revered, their sons around them grow And flourish; monarch of his past'ral tribe, A patriarch's throne is each devoted heart!

The wingèd throne is, I think, a synonym of the 'sphere' itselfnot a throne within the sphere: 'wingèd,' because the sphere revolves in space.