The subjects selected are a Nativity, and an Adoration of the Magi.

There was flattery, clever, hidden flattery, which seemed like adoration, in every word he spoke, every tone of his voice, every glance of his coal-black eyes, that seemed in some way to atone for the long, gray, monotonous days that had weighed so heavily upon her spirits.

"Clearly understood," she repeated, with her eyes on him in unmistakable adoration.

Day by day his adoration increased.

I have wondered whether one great part of Napoleon's mission was not to wake people from this idolatry of the power of God to the adoration of his love.

Join, every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of the sky In adoration join; and, ardent, raise One general song!

* I have thus tracedhow slightly!the course of the religious poetry of England, from simple song, lovingly regardful of sacred story and legend, through the chant of philosophy, to the full-toned lyric of adoration.

Yet have we our revenge, As much as Earth may be reveng'd on Heaven: Their divine honour Nero shall usurpe, And prayers and feasts and adoration have As well as Iupiter.

This is certainly poetically expressed; but there was more true love in Pygmalion's passion for his statue, and in the Parisian maiden's adoration of the Apollo.

" In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, in all its public sessions, my form of prayer since 1866; and one of the very clergymen who had publicly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy," offered his audible adoration in the words I use, besides listening to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by Judge S.J. Hanna, in that unique assembly.

"In pathetic dirges, in songs of jubilee, in outbursts of praise, in prophetic announcements, in the agonies of contrition, in bursts of adoration, in the beatitudes of holy bliss, in the enchanting calmness of Christian life," no one has ever surpassed David, so that he was called "the sweet singer of Israel.

thou That, as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow traveling, with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapory cloud To rise before me,rise, oh, ever rise!

The boy's adoration was strangely sweet to her wearied senses.

Dante impersonates the spirit of the Middle Ages in his adoration of Beatrice.

n of our Lord with adoration of our Lady,the deification of Christ with the deification of woman.

And as to the adoration of the saints, he simply maintained that since gifts can be obtained only through the mediation of Christ, it would be better to pray to him directly rather than through the mediation of saints.

Hélène's year of widowhood is nearly over; she and Philippe are presently to be married; all is harmony, adoration, and security.

They who serve me in adoration are in me.

But beyond this, it seems, in more general terms, to apply specially to those who are so conscious of God that they seem to live in His presence, and who are chiefly concerned with approaching Him, not by way of Love, Beauty, Wisdom, or Nature, but directly, through purgation and adoration.

The adoration of a putrid carcass would have been a form of fetichism lower and more degrading than any that has been discovered.

The union of the Phallus and Cteis, or the Lingam and Yoni, in one compound figure, as an object of adoration, was the most usual mode of representation.

The natural sun or the spiritual sunthe sun, either as the vivifying principle of animated nature, and therefore the special object of adoration, or as the most prominent instrument of the Creator's benevolencewas ever a leading idea in the symbolism of antiquity.

That as in these ancient religions the universe was symbolized to the candidate, and the sun, as its vivifying principle, made the object of his adoration, or at least of his veneration, so, in Masonry, the lodge is made the representative of the world or the universe, and the sun is presented as its most prominent symbol.

"The singularly emphatic summons," says a profound modern writer, "by which light is called into existence, is probably owing to the preëminent utility and glory of that element, together with its mysterious nature, which made it seem as 'The God of this new world,' and won for it the earliest adoration of mankind.

That beautiful young bridegroom was bored to the verge of dissolution by his solemn and sleepy Prudencia, who kept her wide eyes upon him with an expression of rapt adoration, exactly as she regarded the Stations in the Mission when performing the Via Crucis.