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"I am the Phantom of Pride!" said a third voice "For me humanity scales the height of ambition for my sake king's and queens occupy uneasy thrones, and surround themselves with pomp and panoply for me men lie and cheat and wrong their neighbours for me the homes that should be happy are laid waste for me false laws are made and evil conquers good I am but a Shadow and the world takes me for the Sun!
Thus also when the Prince of Purpoole kept his court at Gray's Inn, A.D. 1594, the prince's champion rode into the dining-hall upon the back of a fiery charger which, like the rider, was clothed in a panoply of steel. In costliness and riotous excess the Prince of Purpoole's revel at Gray's Inn was not inferior to any similar festivity in the time of Elizabeth. On the 20th of December, St.
But I cannot, I will not leave him just yet.... It is two o'clock. I cannot write any more to-night." The appointed time was at the November dusk, hurried forward nearly an hour by the falling panoply of smoke driven westward over the Park by the wet east wind.
Those fresh troops at the crossroads that day had been blithe and smiling. There had been none of the glitter and panoply of war, but there had been movement, the beating of a drum, the sharp cries of officers as the lines re-formed. Here there were no lines. Just such a stream of men as at home might issue at night from a coal mine, too weary for speech.
Throughout the planet, Western imperialism was pursuing among the populations of other lands what it regarded as its “civilizing mission”. In the words of one historian, the century’s opening decade appeared to be essentially a continuation of the “long nineteenth century”, an era whose boundless self-satisfaction was perhaps best epitomized by the celebration in 1897 of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, a parade that rolled for hours through the streets of London, with an imperial panoply and display of military power far surpassing anything attempted in past civilizations.
Edestone laughed at himself with his high hat and frock-coat as a centre for all this military panoply. It recalled to him an old-fashioned print he had seen when a boy, representing Abraham Lincoln at the front. "You don't mean to tell me that you really consider this necessary?" he chaffed his companion. Colonel Stewart nodded gravely. "They will make no attempt on your life, Mr.
At the top of the steps in her panoply of black chiffon, velvet, ostrich feathers clothes so rich in the beginning and so well made that they seemed always too unchanged to be thrown away and so went on in a squalid perpetuity she laid a hand on Esther's wrist. "Come, come, Esther," said she, "don't run away. I came to see you as much as anybody."
The cold and snow were gone, and there was a moonlit glade in a forest; and thither they came, one by one, friendly and human, yet in the full panoply of their splendor and grace.
Though it consists mainly of habitudes and dispositions of our own minds, none the less have we to receive these from above. It is 'the panoply of God, therefore we are to be endued with it, not by exercises in our own strength, but by dependence on Him.
We had dinner under the green trees in a garden belonging to the hotel and overlooking the Neckar; then, after a smoke, we went to bed. We had a refreshing nap, then got up about three in the afternoon and put on our panoply.
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