Here Herod rages on the pageant and in the street also" is one stage direction.
Thus, if a man kept his place all a long summer's day, he might see pass before him pageant after pageant until he had seen the whole story of the world, from the Creation to the Day of Judgment.
And it really seemed as if the pageant was in many cases chosen to suit the trade of the players.
The members of each guild tried to make their pageant as fine as they could.
And it is from these very early monkish plays that the theater with its different kinds of plays, that pageants and even oratorios have sprung.
The pageants were on wheels, and as soon as a play was over at the first appointed place, the stage was dragged by men to the next place and the play again began.
She has lived practically on the tourist traffic attracted by her annual pageants
of Parliaments, Boards, Municipal Councils, etc.
Hop-Frog, in especial, was so inventive in the way of getting up pageants
, suggesting novel characters, and arranging costumes, for masked balls, that nothing could be done, it seems, without his assistance.
But above all, that of the triumph, amongst the Romans, was not pageants
or gaudery, but one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was.
This is the place for the multitude, which with true philosophic spirit, waits until the triumphal pageants
have passed, to know what to say of them, and sometimes also to know what to do.
The natives died of starvation by the million, while their rulers robbed them of the fruits of their toil and expended it on magnificent pageants
and mumbo-jumbo fooleries.
The various dramatic forms from the tenth century to the middle of the sixteenth at which we have thus hastily glanced--folk-plays, mummings and disguisings, secular pageants
, Mystery plays, Moralities, and Interludes--have little but a historical importance.
Then he took a book with pictures in it down from the shelf; there were whole long processions and pageants
, with the strangest characters, which one never sees now-a-days; soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving flags: the tailors had theirs, with a pair of shears held by two lions--and the shoemakers theirs, without boots, but with an eagle that had two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything so that they can say, it is a pair
I am convinced that awful magistrate my lord-mayor contracts a good deal of that reverence which attends him through the year, by the several pageants
which precede his pomp.
The long anticipated wait for Father Christmas will finally be over for hundreds of thousands of children when the Credit Union Christmas Pageant
rolls into town tomorrow.